A SIXTEENTH CENTURY GOLD AND ENAMEL MEMENTO MORI RING, the hexagonal incurved bezel with central white enamel death's head inscribed around in black enamel 'memento mori', the chased scroll shoulders picked out in white enamel, the reverse with black enamel initials AD, circa 1580

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A SIXTEENTH CENTURY GOLD AND ENAMEL MEMENTO MORI RING, the hexagonal incurved bezel with central white enamel death's head inscribed around in black enamel 'memento mori', the chased scroll shoulders picked out in white enamel, the reverse with black enamel initials AD, circa 1580
Finger size J

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Cf. Oman, op. cit., pl. 85(b)(c) and D. Scarisbrick, Rings (1993) p.68

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