Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A gold posy ring, late 16th/early 17th century, inscribed to the inside in capitals “+vive vt vivas”, (live that you may live), decorated to the exterior with angled grooves, ring size J. £600-£800

Ex Uk collection, found in Essex before 1997.

For further examples of rings bearing the same inscription see Timeline Auctions, (February 2022, lot 445 and May 2023, lot 412) and the Portable Antiquities Scheme (ref. DUR-23C436).