Antique 18th Century Portuguese Reliquary Ring - Size 5 anklet It hangs 8" to top

It hangs 8" to top of first bezel on blackened Italian sterling silver chain

French School

14" across shoulders

earrings and rings into the forms of branches

Antique 18th Century Portuguese Reliquary Ring - Size 5 anklet It hangs 8" to topA wonderful and rare Portuguese reliquary ring crafted in the 18th century from silver and gold. It features a wooden icon of "Nossa Senhora" (Our Lady) behind a quartz crystal, framed by a frieze of "minas novas" (quartz), beautifully engraved on the reverse and sitting on an ornate band. In the middle of the 18th century in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil, diamond mines and a huge variety of other precious and semi precious stones were