signet-ring
- Museum number
- AF.784
- Description
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Signet-ring; gold; engraved; enamelled; flanged hoop decorated with black floral designs and crescents; plain oval bezel; inscription behind bezel.
- Production date
- 16thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 0.97 inches (hoop)
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Length: 0.57 inches (bezel)
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Weight: 317 grains
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This ring is no. 41 in the Londesborough Collection catalogue. Crofton Croker describes it as, '"Poesie" Ring. Gold, the circular face, for signet, unengraved; the shank richly engraved with floral ornamentation, somewhat similar in design to those on the shank of No. 9, except that on this the pattern is in relief, on the former sunk. Nielloed, with the motto engraved inside,
"Mon Cor Plesor" (My heart's delight).'
'Workmanship, late in the fifteenth or early in the sixteenth century.'
'See illustration of this style of ornamentation on the shank of the Ring in that of John Stanberry, Bishop of Hereford, 1452 to 1474. Engraved in glossary to Fairholt's "Costume in England" p.589; and in the Ring of Archbishop Bowett, 1423, inscribed with "+ honnor + et + ioye +" preserved in York Minster.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- AF.784
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Londesborough Collection 41