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GEM-SET AND ENAMEL MASQUERADE RING, LATE 18TH CENTURY

5 June 2025, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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GEM-SET AND ENAMEL MASQUERADE RING, LATE 18TH CENTURY

The hinged carnival mask with black and white enamelling, rose-cut diamond eyes, opening to reveal a pear-shaped ruby, inscribed to the underside 'otte pa masque', between cushion-shaped ruby shoulders in closed-back settings, some enamel loss, ring size F

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Masquerade jewels were popular throughout Europe during the 18th century when elaborate masquerade balls were held. For similar examples, see Chadour, A. B., 'Rings: The Alice and Louis Koch Collection: Forty Centuries Seen by Four Generations', W. S. Maney and Son, Leeds, 1994, p.261, no. 852 and no. 853, and Ward, A., Cherry, J., Gere, C. and Cartlidge, B., 'The Ring: From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century', Thames and Hudson, London, 1981, p.111, no. 236.


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