finger-ring

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Object Type
Museum number: AF.1943
Description: Finger-ring; gold; the shoulders have each a quatrefoil with projections to right and left; large bezel with an emerald, the petals at the side elaborately chased with scrolls, once enamelled.
Production date: 16thC
Materials: gold; emerald
Technique: enamelled (once); chased
Dimensions: Diameter: 34.30 millimetres; Weight: 170 grains
Curator's comments: For a similar ring with a ruby rather than an emerald see Chadour 1994. no 687.
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1912 / Franks Bequest Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and Later, Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, KCB, in which are included the other rings of the same period in the Museum. (1937); Cooper 2013 / Elizabeth I and her people (cat.39a)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2013-2014 Oct-Jan, London, National Portrait Gallery, Elizabeth I and her People
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: AF.1943

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