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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): 1780; Classification(s): jewellery, ring; Acquisition: bequeathed by Perceval, Spencer George, 1922, S.G. Perceval Bequest [PER.M.242-1923]
Description: Gold, plain, triangular in section, hoop broadening into engraved shoulders. Large oval bezel, containing an urn made of hair decorated with a band of small diamonds set in silver, gilt border of blue enamel, on a background of ivory. Engraved on back of bezel:
John
Kirkman
Esq.
Obt 15 Sept
1780
Aet 36 | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | ring jewellery Unknown | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1780; end=1780 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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