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The ring has a thin gold hoop dividing into two branches at the shoulders, and a rectangular silver bezel with cast and chased border, in which is set a rectangular, plain gold frame enclosing under glass a miniature of a brown eyebrow and an eye with a blue iris. 244 reference exhibition-2376 adlib-exhibition-2376 3e2208a0-ad25-3b64-b03f-cb63aa00fd02 Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment M.4-2000 1 accession number M.4-2000 28432 priref 28432 Fitzwilliam Museum entry form number 121 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28432 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28432 on size reduction fitment inscribed 5 M/M REGAL 901 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Sue Purdy reference agent-156313 adlib-agent-156313 57f7a40c-5dfe-3fa8-93cd-0441c7e4978f Purdy, Sue 2000 2000 2000-05-08 bequeathed Bequeathed by Mrs Sue Purdy (executor Mr Ian Purdy). 1790 1790 CE 1790 circa 1790 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Miniatures of eyes were fashionable in England around 1785-1810 and continued to be worn later. See, Shirley Bury, Jewellery 1789-1910, The International Era, Volume I, 1789-1861, London, 1991, p. 68. She describes 'eye' portrait as 'One of the most original contributions to sentimental jewellery', and notes a French ring with an eye portrait belonging to a male visitor which Lady Eleanor Butler, one of the Ladies of Llangollen, recorded in her diary on 6 December 1785. p. 68 reference publication-2284 adlib-publication-2284 75550a0f-8e84-3768-b2c9-9f2c1c571ae3 Jewellery 1789-1910, The International Era, Volume 1, 1789-1861 Ref. see p. 338 p. 338 reference publication-2285 adlib-publication-2285 da13ee4c-8e09-381f-bbd0-eb9b428857a0 Jewellery in Britain 1066-1837 Cf. For several examples of jewellery with eyes, see pl. 29, 30, 31, 47, and text p. 158 p. 158 reference publication-2286 adlib-publication-2286 8d16eae7-f618-3cda-8aa2-ce7ba7d8696b Gedenke Mein, Freundschafs - und Memorialschmuck 1770-1870 reference publication-5423 adlib-publication-5423 0a6e5705-5e78-3139-89b6-68ca31ed0b53 Provenance Royale object name reference term-110028 adlib-term-110028 60a78873-9af9-3199-8c3f-25aed9903a45 eye object name reference term-110027 adlib-term-110027 a346987f-9f03-3d6a-9fc0-f9c822879f37 eyebrow literal eye eye literal eyebrow eyebrow reference term-107316 adlib-term-107316 0ee043d1-0145-3f40-98b0-f15741e47a95 ring ring object OBJECT