Early portrait miniature memorial ring, circa 1793. A yellow gold ring vertically set with an oval portrait miniature of a lady in late eighteenth century period dress wearing a floral hat on a blue ground, covered with a convex glass in a collet setting, within a plain gold conforming frame, flanked by steeply tapered shoulders, and on a tapered half round shank, the reverse of the bezel engraved in cursive ‘Mary/Madgwick/obt: 13 Jany/1793/At: 71’.
