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Description: | Complete gold post-medieval finger ring. The hoop is formed from a thin band that is semicircular in section, having a flat inner face. The exterior of the hoop is engraved with a skull flanked by pointed triangular panels with traces of white enamel in a lozenge pattern. The skull may once have been enamelled black. The interior of the ring is inscribed Prepared be to follow me IK ob 4 1st 67? (IK having died 4th January 1667), containing much of its original black enamelling. The inscription is followed by the maker?s mark BW in a rectangular shield.
This is a characteristic type of mourning ring. There are thirteen similar examples in the British Museum dating from the 1660?s to the 1730?s (Dalton ring cat. 1912, numbers 1462-1474). Dalton illustrates similar black enamelled skulls (1471-1472) and similar triangular panels (1474). | 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: | 1667 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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