Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A gold posy ring, circa 1660-1680, the wide rectangular-shaped hoop inscribed to the interior in italics ‘Godlye .love .will .not .remove’, maker’s mark ‘R’ in an oval cartouche, diameter 21mm, width 5mm, ring size R. £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Posy Rings.

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Ex UK collection.

According to a PMI test on the XRF analyzer the gold is testing as purity 91.02%.


For other examples of rings bearing the same posy see the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Evans Collection (ref. AN1933.1586), the British Museum (ref. AF.1252, and AF.1253), the Griffin Collection (Inv. nos. 03486 and 03019), with a further close variation in the British Museum (ref. 1961,1202.178).