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A Post Medieval gold posy ring of D section, 16/17th century, the interior inscribed in capital text "I LYKE. MI CHOVS. TO. WEL. TO. CHANG", weight 9 grams, diameter 23mm. Sold with the H M Coroner report, treasure number 2016 T208, PAS database YORYM - C2732F. The inscription can be translated as "I Like my Choice Too Well To Change". Posy or Poesie (French for poem) rings have a short inscription engraved upon them; they were popular in the 16th-18th centuries in England and France. They were often used as lover's tokens, betrothal or wedding rings and are the forerunners of modern wedding bands, the often-rhymed mottos expressing feelings of love and fidelity. The rarest posy rings have ornate engraved exteriors, often with floral decoration, and sometimes also are inlaid with enamel. The British Museum has a collection of some 700 examples. See lot 175, sale 12th May 2017 for another posy ring sold by these rooms. This example was found by a metal detectorist on farmland outside of Brantingham, East Yorkshire, he had covered the field many times but as is often the case, when freshly ploughed items can move to the surface, which is what happened on this occasion. The land is believed to have formally been part of the Brantingham Thorpe Estate. Brantingham comes from the once noble family of de Brantingham who obtained the land in 1369; during the 14th century they held many notable positions in the land including Ralph de Brantingham, King's Chamberlain to Edward III from 1349, and Thomas de Brantingham, Lord Treasurer from 1369 to 1371 and Bishop of Exeter from 1370 until his death. Over the years the family waned and by the early 18th century the estate was owned by Hugh Mason of Hull, he was a large land owner who was involved in the redevelopment of land formally belonging to Charterhouse in central Hull and now called Mason Street. The estate was sold on a regular basis until acquired by Sir Tatton Sykes in 1867 and he remodelled the original Jacobean Manor House (and changed the name of the public house to Triton Inn, the same as the Sledmere estate public house).
Iestyn Davies for Blowzone - a frosted glass vase of tapering square form with central trailing black band and two red glass discs inset on a gold ground to one side, signed, 21cm high. In 1988 Iestyn Davies was working at the Broadfield Glass Museum as Osiris Glass. Together with an Alice Giroud for Colver France opaque glass vase of cylindrical form decorated with a web of iridescent veins, signed, 20cm high (2)
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