Striking wide black enamel and high carat William IV period mourning ring for the Reverend Winchcombe Henry Hartley 1832.
Central glazed hair panel bordered by carved gold shells and flowers. Substantial weight. 11.3 grams.
Size 5-5.5. Internal diameter 16mm.
Very crisp unworn condition.
Inscribed ‘Rev.W.H.Hartley Ob.9th Septr 1832 Aet.44’.
Rev Hartley Vicar of Bucklebury in Berkshire married Elizabeth Watts 1809 and left a son(also Winchcombe)and daughter Elizabeth Ann. The National Portrait Gallery contains a caricature of the Reverend by Robert Dighton(1808)’A View from Merton College,Oxford.’