Not on display

Mourning Ring

ca. 1720 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Enamelled gold mourning ring, the hoop set with an oval facted crystal enclosing a skull and cross-bones. The hoop enamelled in black with floral patterns. Inscribed inside CMB Obt. 21 Nov. 1721 Maker's mark BU

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Inscribed and enamelled gold set with crystal
Brief description
Enamelled gold mourning ring, set with an oval facted crystal enclosing a skull and cross-bones. Inscribed inside CMB Obt. 21 Nov. 1721 Maker's mark, England, ca.1720
Physical description
Enamelled gold mourning ring, the hoop set with an oval facted crystal enclosing a skull and cross-bones. The hoop enamelled in black with floral patterns. Inscribed inside CMB Obt. 21 Nov. 1721 Maker's mark BU
Dimensions
  • Height: 2cm
  • Width: 1.9cm
  • Depth: 0.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • inscribed inside CMB Obt. 21 Nov. 1721 (Inside)
  • Marked BU (Maker's mark)
Credit line
Given by the Rev. R. Brooke
Object history
Probably William Burkitt, (Grimwade, 243).

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.’
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
1120-1864

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Record createdJuly 6, 2006
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