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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 223378, member: 2844"]You're right, it does have all the characteristics of a 16th century ring.</p><p>The cut on the central diamond looks like an Antwerp rose cut. It could have been cut in Antwerp and traded to England as a loose stone, probably with the other diamonds, and mounted in a ring there, or the ring could have been made in Antwerp or another part of the Low Countries, and made its way to England through trade or on a lucky person's finger.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 223378, member: 2844"]You're right, it does have all the characteristics of a 16th century ring. The cut on the central diamond looks like an Antwerp rose cut. It could have been cut in Antwerp and traded to England as a loose stone, probably with the other diamonds, and mounted in a ring there, or the ring could have been made in Antwerp or another part of the Low Countries, and made its way to England through trade or on a lucky person's finger.[/QUOTE]
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