© Charles Dickens Museum
Serpent ring
Artist: Artist not known
Location: Charles Dickens Museum
Date: circa 1840
Materials: gold, enamel & diamonds
Dimensions: 20mm diameter (size N)
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,322 (Total: £5,287)
Vendor: Bonhams
Review number: 5072 (2002)
Provenance:
Count D'Orsay; Catherine Dickens; bequeathed to her sister Georgina Hogarth; by descent to present owner.
Description:
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.
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