The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc (1852)

London : John Cassell · leaf 801

An illustration from The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc, 1852, leaf 801 — workmanship for imitation ; the rings (Nos. 10 a, 10 n, 11 a, 11 b), are of this period. The letters on No. 11a, read— “ Athstan,” and possibly had belonged to Athstan, bishop of Sherburn, born 817 to 867. Rings, throughout the -middle ages, were greatly in use amongst the nobility, clergy, &c. The… … II s in the two last-mentioned instances was the finishing portion of the ceremonial. On the effigy of King John, in Worcester cathedral, a ring is placed outside the glove on the second finger of the right hand, and on that of William of Colchester, are rings on the third finger of each hand.…

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