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signet-ring
;
intaglio
Object Type
signet-ring
intaglio
Museum number
AF.583
Description
Gold signet-ring; hoop richly chased with floral designs on which are scrolls with inscription. Octagonal bezel with revolving centre set with sard and sapphire on swivel; sapphire engraved in intaglio with male head and sard with eagle to left. Engraved inscription on border.
Production date
14thC
(?)
15thC
(?)
Production place
Made in:
Italy
Materials
gold
sard
sapphire
Technique
chased
intaglio
Dimensions
Diameter:
0.84 inches
Weight:
147 grains
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Text from Dalton 1912, Catalogue of Finger Rings, no. 257: The signet of Perseval d'Enneval, chamberlain of Charles V and VI, has a bezel revolving in a similar manner ('Catalogue des objets antiques du moyen âge, de la Renaissance etc., dépendant de la succession de M. le Baron Jérôme Pichon', 1897, no. 52) Text from Dalton 1915, Catalogue of Engraved Gems: In a gold signet-ring with swivel, also containing no. 1120. Cf. E. Babelon, Hist. de la gravure sur gemmes en France, Paris 1902, p. 119. .
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.
(257)
Dalton 1915 / Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography in the British Museum.
(940)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Frédéric Spitzer
Acquisition date
1897
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
AF.583