A Rare Table Cut Diamond Ring from Around 1650

Dating from around 1650, this Renaissance to Baroque ring is a rare survival of early diamond jewellery. Its restrained gold and silver construction holds six table cut diamonds and one rose cut diamond, their quiet brilliance enhanced by the historic foil backed setting. Probably of Belgian origin, the ring is valued here less for ornament than for the early stones that help place it so convincingly in the 17th century.