of cartouche shape, mounted with a heron, enamelled in white and black, with a frog in its beak, surrounded by flowering plants within an oval wreath with two frogs at the base, all flanked by outcurved columns and set at the top and base with raised table-cut diamonds, the back panel pierced with interlaced scrolled strapwork chased and decorated with white enamel in fine foliate design, with three associated pendant jewels.  The back plate circa 1600, figures and some stones and settings late 19th century, the ring struck with Dutch control mark for foreign work.

The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, May 21, 1985, lot 130

RELATED LITERATURE

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewelry, no. 585, p. 214, color pl. XXIII, where the style is compared to the work of Corvinianus Saur.&💝nbsp;

Later suspension ring. Some losses to enamel throughout. Three lower pendant jewels are later. Some stones, settings and figures are later. The back plate may be later.
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