Finger ring

Description

Gold portrait ring; the oval head with a portrait painted in watercolour on ivory (?) of Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (?), flanked by collet set square cut garnets or rubies (?), set on openwork shoulders and plain shank; the reverse with a scalloped border around a glazed panel of hair with twisted gold wire initials ‘CR’ surmounted by a crown

Museum reference

X.2015.105.3

Object name

Finger ring

Date

18th century

Materials

Gold, Ivory, Watercolour, Garnet, Ruby, Hair

Exhibitions

• Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites (23 Jun 2017 - 12 Nov 2017)
  National Museum of Scotland