17th Century Fashion Rings

This piece is very unique and beautiful one of a kind you will never find this piece Anywhere at least that I Know of it's 1 of my favorite pieces It's really just beautiful very vin...

This dome design ring is a luxurious piece crafted in Italy, made from 18kt gold. It's adorned with natural color sapphires and round diamonds, promising and exquisite combination of...

This stunning new ring features an 8 Ct. natural Brazilian AAAA QUALITY VVS amethyst fantasy cut stone set in 14k solid yellow gold. The gemstone's purple hue is beautifully compleme...

Engraved with the crest to a plain band. Size 9 Top size 22m diameter Weight: 25gr

10 grams of 18 carat rose gold with a pear shape ruby and two O.5 point diamonds, Jordania Ring is a solid piece with a strong design that connects you with antique royalty.

This is a lovely bombe style ring by David Webb designed with blue enameled striped pattern and a touch of round cut diamonds on the top. Perfect cocktail ring to be out and about. Y...

Three oval topaz gems are vertically set in 18 Kt Gold in this Georgian ring. The gems look as if drops of honey spiked into place on this three stone setting. Superb gold work stands out in the smallest spirals of cannetille work and the minute gold bead granulation. A luscious medium sized ring...

ITALIAN GLASS DECORATIVE RING Italy, 17th century Gold and foiled glass Weight: 4.4 g; circumference 57.6 mm; size: US 8.25, UK Q Gold sexfoil bezel set with six diamond-shaped and table cut glass stones over foil. Each petal is interspersed with a round rock crystal bead, with a seventh in the center. The back of the bezel is sculpted to emphasize the floral shape of the ring. A fine D-ring hoop terminates in fluted shoulder molded to the underside of the second and fourth petals. The foils have oxidized to green on each petal with the exception of the fourth petal where the foil now appears a rust color. The ring is in very good condition. The attention paid to gems over the goldsmith’s settings prevailed in the first half of the seventeenth-century. Examples of this new fashion in jewelry are evident in items from the Cheapside Hoard and in design books from across Baroque Europe. Often, as with the present ring, the gems were highlighted by their rosette style settings. Literature An almost identical setting for a hat ornament was found in the Cheapside Hoard (Museum of London A14082; see Princely Magnificence, Victoria and Albert Museum 1981, p. 25 and Forsyth, London, 2013). These rosette designs may have been inspired by Merovingian jewelry (see for example a fibula conserved in Saint-Omer; Le Nord de la France de Théodose à Charles Martel...