Serpent ring

Artist not known

Charles Dickens Museum

circa 1840

A Victorian ring formerly belonging to Mrs Catherine Dickens, who married Charles Dickens in 1836. The ring was a gift from the French artist, Count D'Orsay, a close friend of the Dickens family. The flexible body of the ring is made up of separate, individual scale sections which would have been sprung.

• Medium: gold, enamel & diamonds
• Dimensions: 20mm diameter (size N)
• Art Fund Grant: £1322 ( Total: £5,287)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: Bonhams

Provenance

Count D'Orsay; Catherine Dickens; bequeathed to her sister Georgina Hogarth; by descent to present owner.

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