Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford), 1876-1960 · London : Methuen and co · leaf 249
he stone upon a high case orstalk, so that the bezel is raised con-siderably above the hand. A curiousexample, dating from the fourteenthcentury, is in the Sauvageot Collectionin the Galerie dApollon of the Louvre,It shows two dragons heads issuingfrom crown-shaped ornaments support-^tn^rufytouvrS… … 4 MEDIEVAL RINGS Church, Worcestershire (1450), every finger but the lastone on the right hand is decorated with a ring. In manyof the Flemish pictures of the same date we find orna-mental rings set with table-cut or cabochon stones. Theform of these is admirably represented in the portraitof a…
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