THIS RING IS REALLY THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF LOVE AS IT IS AROUND 600 YEARS OLD AND SATURATED WITH ROMANCE!
Sotheby’s To Offer 15th
Century Marriage Ring Unearthed with Metal Detector
Discovered near Launde Abbey –
Home of Thomas Cromwell’s Son
Expected to fetch
£20,000-30,000 at auction
On public exhibition in London
prior to sale on 9 July
An English, late fifteenth-century love or marriage ring discovered in
2013 with a metal detector near Launde Abbey, an Elizabethan manor house once
home to Thomas Cromwell’s son, will be offered for auction by Sotheby’s in
London on 9 July 2015 in a sale of Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art.
Estimated at £20,000-30,000, the ring is an early and exceptionally lavish
example of its kind, on which the bond between husband and wife is symbolised
by two different gems, a point-cut diamond and a rounded ruby. The engraved
sprigs on the partially enamelled shoulders of the ring are typical of a
goldsmith’s work in fifteenth-century England.
From the 12th century onwards, the site near Launde Abbey –
situated in the valley of the river Chater in East Norton, Leicestershire – was
occupied by a large and wealthy Augustinian Priory. Thomas Cromwell was so
impressed by the building and the location that he presented it to himself
after surveying it as part of the dissolution of the monasteries.
His execution
in 1540 prevented him from moving in. Instead his son Gregory and his wife
Elizabeth Seymour, the sister of Henry VIII’s third wife Jane Seymour, took
residence there.
Erik Bijzet, Sotheby’s Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
specialist, comments: “The movement of wealthy patrons around a major monastery,
the violence with which the rich institution must have taken for the Crown, and
the importance of the subsequent inhabitants are all reasons for a ring of this
significance to have been deposited in its vicinity.”
OLD MASTER
SCULPTURE AND WORKS OF ART
09 JULY
2015 | SOTHEBY’S LONDON
English,
late 15th century
LOVE OR
MARRIAGE RING
partially
enamelled gold, set with a diamond and a ruby
23mm., 7/8 in.
ring size: K
23mm., 7/8 in.
ring size: K
Estimate: £20,000 — 30,000
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