Rings for the finger : $b from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.Kunz, George Frederick
History
Rings for the finger : $b from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.
Kunz, George Frederick
Rings; Rings -- Folklore
Cameo of Louis XII; Nelson Ring; Napoleon Elba Ring 45
Hands on Egyptian Mummy Case; Hands from Portrait; Hand
Showing Hindu Jewels 50
Hands from Sepulchral Effigy; Illustrating Ring-wearing 51
Upper Part of Mummy Case of Artemidora, Showing Rings on
Hand 52
Sketch by Sir Charles Hercules Read of Finger of Bronze
Statue with Seal Ring 53
Portrait of a Lady by Anton Van Dyke 60
Portrait of Princess Hatzfeld by Antonio Pesaro 61
Anglo-Saxon Rings 64
Thumb Ring; Frankish and Lombardic Rings 65
The “Lorscher Ring”; Ring with Mouse; Venetian Ring;
Jeweller’s Ring-rod 72
Spur Ring; Modern Egyptian Rings; Pipe-stopper Ring 73
Oriental Rings 78
Rich East Indian Ring; Rings Made by Siamese Priest 79
Indian Toe Rings 80
Portrait of Rich Cinghalese Merchant with Many Rings 81
Ring of President Franklin Pierce; Old Rings Combined
as Pendant 84
Rings in Drake Collection 85
Rings from Collection of W. Gedney Beatty, Esq. 92
Types of Watch Rings 93
Portrait of a Man, Fifteenth Century, by Antonio del
Pollaiolo, Showing Pointed Diamond in Ring 98
Portrait of a Venetian Senator with Thumb Ring 99
Portrait of a Man by Lucas Cranach 118
Portrait of Katharina Aeder, by Hans Bock the Elder 119
Portrait of Cardinal of Brandenburg, by the “Master of
the Death of Mary” 124
Portrait of a Mother and Her Daughter, by Bartholomew Bruyn 125
Ancient Roman Seal Rings; Key Ring 132
Roman Rings of Bronze and of Bone; Roman Gold Ring with
Settings; Gold Ring from Wiston, Sussex; Roman Silver
Ring 133
Bronze Signet Rings; Ivory Signet Ring 136
Gold Signet, Sixteenth Century; Massive Gold Signet,
English, Fifteenth Century 137
Man’s Portrait, by Conrad Faber; Portrait of Benedikt
von Hertenstein, by Hans Holbein 148
Man and Woman at Casement. Florentine, Fifteenth Century 149
Rings From Collection of Imperial Kunstgewerbe Museum,
Vienna 156
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