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Ring Brooch

1275-1300 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

Ring brooch, gold, set with rubies and saphires. The small-scale brooch set on the front with four rubies in rectangular settings alternating with six settings comprising two small collets each set with sapphires, flanking a pierced oval opening. The front is decorated with punch work, the reverse is plain.

Object details

Categories
Jewellery
Metalwork
Object type
Ring brooch
Materials and techniques
Gold, punched; ruby, sapphire
Gold
Ruby
Sapphire
Punching
Brief description
Ring brooch, gold, set with rubies and sapphires. England, 1275-1300
Physical description
Ring brooch, gold, set with rubies and saphires. The small-scale brooch set on the front with four rubies in rectangular settings alternating with six settings comprising two small collets each set with sapphires, flanking a pierced oval opening. The front is decorated with punch work, the reverse is plain.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 1.6cm
Bibliographic references
  • Lightbown, Ronald. Medieval European Jewellery: with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1992. cat. 28. p. 499.
  • Alexander, Jonathan, and Paul Binski (eds.), Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1987.
  • Campbell, Marian. 'Found in London, made in London - London connections for some medieval metalwork in the Victoria & Albert Museum'. In: 'Hidden Histories and Records of Antiquity': Essays on Saxon and Medieval London for John Clark, Curator Emeritus, Museum of London, ed. by Jonathan Cotton, Jenny Hall, Jackie Keily, Roz Sherris and Roy Stephenson. London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Special Paper, 17. London: London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 2014. ISBN 9780903290685.
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
6808-1860

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Record createdDecember 15, 1999
Record URL
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