Within the Jewish community, betrothal rings were common in south Germany from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

They were often given by the fiancé to his bride-to-be one year before the marriage and were normally too big to wear regularly. Inside the container which sits atop the ring is a Hebrew inscription which reads 'Good Luck.' The bezel has been styled after Romanesque synagogues.

Provenance

Mrs Holbrooke, Bladon Castle; Christies, 1938.


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