Mourning ring | Yale University Art Gallery

1728

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

Medium: Gold, glass
Dimensions: 13/16 × 1/16 in. (2.06 × 0.24 cm, 3 g)
Credit Line: Gift of Stephen G. C. Ensko
Accession Number: 1940.477
Geography: Probably made in New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Stephen G. C. Ensko, to 1940; 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. 2, pp. 263, 265, no. 993

Peter J. Bohan, American Gold, 1700–1860, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1963), 44, no. 113

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

mourning rings

Illegible mark; maybe a "T" next to an illegible character within rectangle next to bezel on top of band.

"AP" in script under glass in woven, gold wire or gold-covered hair.

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