Signet Ring

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Italy (made)

Nielloed silver signet ring, the circular bezel engraved with a slipped trefoil and the shoulders decorated with palmettes

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Categories	Jewellery Metalwork
Object type	Signet ring
Materials and techniques	Engraved and nielloed silver
Brief description	Nielloed silver signet ring, the circular bezel engraved with a slipped trefoil and the shoulders decorated with palmettes, Italy, 16th century
Physical description	Nielloed silver signet ring, the circular bezel engraved with a slipped trefoil and the shoulders decorated with palmettes
Dimensions	Height: 1.9cm Width: 1.9cm Depth: 1cm
Object history	ex Waterton Collection
Subjects depicted	Trefoils Palmettes
Bibliographic references	Waterton, Edmund Dactyliotheca Watertoniana: a descriptive catalogue of the finger-rings in the collection of Mrs Waterton, (manuscript, 1866, now in National Art Library) 'British Guiana 2426 (Walton Hall)', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://web.archive.org/web/20221205150942/http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/7157 Oman, Charles, Catalogue of rings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1930, reprinted Ipswich, 1993, cat.
Collection	Metalwork Collection
Accession number	746-1871

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Record created	February 13, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O121002/signet-ring-unknown/

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