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| Keywords: German - Signet Ring - Walters 572050.jpg Signet rings were used for impressing one's personal mark like a signature on the wax seal applied to a letter or other document The signet on this ring depicts a shield with a rampant lion with a flute in its mouth Above the shield are the initials S K The sides of the ring are engraved with images of a man and a woman probably husband and wife in late medieval secular dress ca 1500 Early Modern gold cm 1 2 2 5 2 6 accession number 57 2050 28581 Melvin Gutman Collection Sale Parke-Bernet Galleries New York May 15 1970 Part V lot 121 Mrs Ruth Blumka New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1979 by purchase Museum purchase 1979 Transcription S K Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 Recent Accessions The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1981 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Signet rings Jewellery of Germany Renaissance jewellery Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
