17TH CENTURY

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CHARLES I (1600-1649)
A GOLD MOURNING RING
17TH CENTURY
For Charles I with painted enamel portrait of the King against a lilac ground, the reverse painted with a skull motif against a black ground with the inscription 'Jn.30 1648', the shank and bezel with black enamel decoration (distressed), the interior engraved 'Martye populi' (people's martyr), finger size K

Provenance

Christie's, South Kensington, 25 February 1997, lot 414.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cf. M.Dalton, op.cit. p.195-197 nos. 1359-1365, also C.Oman, op.cit, pls 79,80, also D.Scarisbrick op.cit p.102-103, see also Christie's, Rings from Antiquity to the Present Day, 5 October 1988, lot 369, and Christie’s, 9th October 2012, including the Jurgen Abeler collection of rings, lot 343, for similar rings.

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