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Antique Mourning Ring With Hair in Gold, Around 1855

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Antique Mourning Ring With Hair in Gold, Around 1855

Description

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In past centuries, death was still omnipresent. Life expectancy was low and the confrontation with passing was as present as it was unavoidable. Jewellery had a deep symbolic meaning in this context. Up to the earliest times its special role can be proven for the area of death, mourning and commemoration. A multitude of rules and norms of behavior were intended to ease the grief of the bereaved and to satisfy society's standards of decency. According to the degree of kinship, mourning times were meticulously determined during which special clothing was to be worn. The mourning clothes also included specially made jewellery whose forms and symbolic contents changed over the centuries. They were not only a personal expression of the loss of loved ones, but also a sign of respect for the family as a central institution of society. Widows wore mourning clothes for a whole year, mirrors were hung and seals were stamped in black instead of red wax. Especially in Victorian times, mourning rings such as this piece of jewellery experienced the height of their popularity. Every family owned a variety of these wearable memento mori - usually using hair of the deceased, as a well-preserved part of the perishable body. Our example is made of reddish gold and features an encircling band of braided hair. A shield with engraved monogram refers to the deceased person. The ring from the 1850s is very well preserved and found its way to us here in Berlin.

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Far From the Eye, Near to the Heart

€ 349.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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