The distinguished private collection, known as the Griffin Collection, comprises in its entirety examples of every category of ring -- signet, devotional, memorial, decorative -- dating from antiquity to modern times. This catalogue, focusing on about 150 rings in the collection, is concerned with p...

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1. Verfasser:	Scarisbrick, Diana 1928- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Ad Ilissum 2021
Schlagworte:	Griffin Collection Brautwerbung Ring > Schmuck Rings / Inscriptions Rings / Private collections / Catalogs Rings / History Courtship / History Courtship Rings Rings / Private collections Catalogs History Inscriptions Bildband
Zusammenfassung:	The distinguished private collection, known as the Griffin Collection, comprises in its entirety examples of every category of ring -- signet, devotional, memorial, decorative -- dating from antiquity to modern times. This catalogue, focusing on about 150 rings in the collection, is concerned with perhaps the most personal rings of all, those associated with love and marriage. Some can be recognised by the figure of Cupid armed with his quiver of golden arrows, others by the symbols of heart and clasped hands. However, the majority are gold bands, sometimes plain and occasionally decorated, that are inscribed with mottoes in English expressing the admiration, affection, and pledges of fidelity which bind humankind together. Known as posies or little poems because they often rhyme, these mottoes were current on rings from the late Middle Ages until the middle of the 19th century. Through these rings, Ms. Scarisbrick engagingly tells the long story of the relations between the sexes from the fifteenth century, when the cult of courtly love was superseded by an idealization of monogamous marriage, to an end in the twentieth century as a result of a different moral outlook
Beschreibung:	223 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781912168217