Mourning Ring
ca. 1720 (made)
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Gold mourning ring, the hoop set with three rose-cut diamonds, Inscribed inside MB obt 16 Augt 1720
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Materials and techniques | Inscribed gold set with rose-cut diamonds |
Brief description | Gold mourning ring, the hoop set with three rose-cut diamonds, Inscribed inside MB obt 16 Augt 1720, England, ca.1720 |
Physical description | Gold mourning ring, the hoop set with three rose-cut diamonds, Inscribed inside MB obt 16 Augt 1720 |
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Marks and inscriptions | inscribed MB obt 16 Augt 1720 (Inside) |
Credit line | Given by the Rev. R. Brooke |
Object history | Record of Mary Brook, buried 19 August, 1720, Thornhill, Yorkshire. "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch, Mary Brook, 1720. See also 1119-1864 Part of the Brooke collection donated to the V&A in 1864. The Brooke collection includes objects relating to the Brooke family along with the Osbaldestons, who were closely related. “The Reverend R. Brooke, Gateforth House, Selby, presented, in February 1864, a collection of articles of personal use of the 17th and 18th centuries, being the accumulated memorials of an English family for three or four generations; the most important are watches, rings, seals, lace and court dresses; the total number of objects is 396.” The gift also included 718 books for the new National Art Library. Brooke stipulated that the collection should be kept together and labelled as the ‘Brooke of Gateforth Gift’. (Eighteenth Report of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, London, 1865, pp.40-41). The minutes also stipulate “That Mr and Mrs Brooke, and the future possessors of the ‘Gateforth Estate’, provided they bear the name and are of the present family of ‘Brooke’, to have the privilege secured to them (by memorandum recorded in the Books of the Museum, and by possession of a Free Pass Ticket) of entrance into the Museum and Library and the Horticultural Gardens attached, on the holding of any scientific or other meetings, and on all other public occasions.’ |
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Accession number | 1118-1864 |
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Record created | July 6, 2006 |
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