An enamel and diamond Masquerade ring, circa 1750


The hinged carnival mask decorated with polychrome enamel and set with rose-cut diamond eyes, the inside decorated with white enamel, the white enamel band inscribed, SOUS LE MASQUE LA VÉRITÉ, mounted in yellow gold, some enamel loss, ring size approx. L½, cased by S.J. Phillips Ltd, London
|For similar examples, see Chadour, A. B., 'Rings: The Alice and Louis Koch Collection: Forty Centuries Seen by Four Generations', W. S. Maney and Son, Leeds, 1994, p.261, nos 852 and 853, and Ward, A., Cherry, J., Gere, C. and Cartlidge, B., 'The Ring: From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century', Thames and Hudson, London, 1981, p.111, no 236.