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18TH CENTURY ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET MOURNING PORTRAIT RING
Lot 273 WORKS OF ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND MARION SASSOON

18TH CENTURY ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET MOURNING PORTRAIT RING

Closed8 June 2021

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18TH CENTURY ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET MOURNING PORTRAIT RING
The oval-shaped portrait miniature of Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth PC, probably on ivory, set on a black enamelled hoop inscribed 'Ye Rt Hon Hugh Ld Viscnt Falmouth' interspersed with three single-cut diamond accents, the underside of the gallery engraved 'died Oct 25 1734 aged 53', circa 1734, ring size J½

Mrs Doris Herschorn (d. 1975) and by descent to her son Hugh Sassoon.

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Hugh Boscawen, first Viscount Falmouth (c. 1680–1734) was a politician, courtier and prominent Cornish landowner. At Queen Anne's accession in 1702 Boscawen was appointed a groom of the bedchamber to Prince George and entered parliament for the family borough of Tregony. Having been created Viscount Falmouth in 1720, Boscawen died suddenly of 'apoplexy' in 1734 and was survived by his wife, Charlotte (d. 1754), who was previously a maid of honour to Queen Anne (1665-1714).