Signet ring
Category
Jewellery
Date
1775 (circa)
Materials
Gold, jasper and agate.
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 288819
Summary
A carved hardstone cameo ring, dating from around 1775. The ring is mounted with a layered jasper cameo of a horse on a pale creamy brown mottled agate ground. The brown jasper horse is exceptionally finely carved to suggest the animal's musculature, hooves and expression. The ring has a fluted gold bezel and plain polished gold hoop.
Full description
In 1886, Georgiana Stanhope Lovell, Lady Crewe (1824-86) recorded in her inventory of the family jewel case that the ring was given to her husband, Sir John Harpur Crewe (1824-86) by Henry J. Folliott Powell of Brandlesholme Hall, Lancashire.
Provenance
Ring, belonging to Henry Folliott Powell of Brandlesholme Hall, Lancashire; by whom given to Sir John Harpur Crewe (1824-86); recorded in the 1886 inventory of the family jewel case as a ‘red carnelian ring carved with horse given to Sir J.H. [John Harpur] Crewe by the late H.J. [Henry] Folliott Powell Esqre of Brandlesome [Brandlesholme] Hall Lancashire.’ Thence by descent to Henry Harpur-Crewe (1921-91) and transferred with Calke Abbey and its contents to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in 1985 with an endowment provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.