Franks bequest. Catalogue of the finger rings, early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, mediaeval and later (1912)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Franks, Augustus Wollaston, Sir, 1826-1897, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 28
* a portraitof an old lady by an artist of theSchool of Cranach affords an evenbetter example (fig. 15). The reasonis possibly to be sought in the generalbelief in the amuletic properties ofprecious stones (see p. xliii). At other times a ring is seen threaded on thecord of a hat.^ Yet another… … Fig. 5. H.ANDS of the Duke of Cleves.From the portrait by Memlinc in the NationalGallery. The fondness for rings in the latter half of the sixteenth century is proved by the numbermentioned in the inventories of the middle classes. Thus the inventory of Laurence Rookbye,merchant, mentions nine gold…
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