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Navette-shaped ring
English
about 1810
Medium/Technique
Gold, silver, enamel, and diamond
Dimensions
Bezel: 3.6 x 2.2 x 1 cm (1 7/16 x 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Emma Brown in memory of her mother, Kim Foglia
Accession Number2013.613
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Rings – Toe rings
DescriptionThis oval ring with scalloped edge has five, central rose-cut diamonds surrounded by 16 smaller diamonds of similar cut.
Marks
Unmarked
ProvenanceProbably about 1920s/1930s, acquired by Munia Gabay Weinstock (b. about 1900), Brooklyn, NY; before 1939, by inheritance to her sister-in-law, Sophia Worth; before 2011, by inheritance to her niece, Dinah Libby Weinstock Foglia; before 2011, by inheritance to her daughter, Kim Bianca Foglia (b. 1958 - d. 2011); January 4, 2011, by inheritance to her daughter, Emma Brown, South Huntington, NY; 2013, gift of Brown to the MFA. (Accession date: May 29, 2013)