Mourning rings were popular from about the fif- teenth to nineteenth centuries, in particular during the baroque period and eighteenth century. Memorial rings with commemorative inscriptions and portraits of the de- ceased became fashionable, and mourning rings were given at funerals as a token of remembrance; these were black or dark blue in combination with white enamel sur- rounding the name of the deceased person and their birth and death dates. In the late eighteenth century, memor- ial rings reached a peak together with the ritual of mourn- ing. Large elaborate bezels illustrated death through symbols such as the broken column, the obelisk, with the most popular being the funerary urn derived from an- tiquity. These were often accompanied by weeping wil- lows, cypresses, faithful dogs, and lamenting women in classical drapery, either diamond-studded or made of the hair of the deceased, against a dark blue enamel or glass over an engine-turned background. In contrast to this, the eighteenth century showed an abundance of fancy rings, with hearts entwined in ru- bies and diamonds, billing doves, love knots, flowers tied with ribbons or filling a basket, and other themes of na- ture, masquerade or games in polychrome choice of stones. The decorative feature of the ring culminated in the multilayered bezels and clusters of stones in rose-cut and other fancy cuts that became stylish in the eighteenth century, which continues to be popular in the early twenty-first century.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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