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Description: | Tiny gold posy ring with a chequerboard pattern on the exterior. Traces of white enamel remain. The inscription inside, in French, reads `La Fidelite courone ma vie' (Faithfulness crowns my life).
Dimensions: maximum diameter: 175mm.
Note: A similar example in the British Museum has black and white enamel and this one would have been two-colour as well. It is likely to date from the 16th or early 17th century. French was often used as the language of sentiment in the late Middle Ages and beyond, so this does not mean that the ring is French rather than English. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1500
1699 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daniel Pett | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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