Poesy Ring | Yale University Art Gallery

1750–90

Not on view

Medium: Silver with gold and glass
Dimensions: 7/8 × 13/16 × 1/4 in. (2.2 × 2.1 × 0.6 cm)
width of band: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1936.171
Geography: Owned in Salem, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Curwen family, Salem, Mass.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1936; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 1, p. 311, no. 533

Object copyright

Additional information

Marks

Unmarked

"Death only parts united hearts" engraved inside band.

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