A Victorian ring formerly belonging to Mrs Catherine Dickens, who married Charles Dickens in 1836.
The ring was a gift from the French artist, Count D'Orsay, a close friend of the Dickens family. The flexible body of the ring is made up of separate, individual scale sections which would have been sprung.
Provenance
Count D'Orsay; Catherine Dickens; bequeathed to her sister Georgina Hogarth; by descent to present owner.