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Cameo ring with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stewart

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Cameo ring with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stewart
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This is the back of a gold and enamel cameo ring, made around 1748, possibly in Paris by exiled Edinburgh goldsmith Adam Tait. The ring contains a gold medallion bearing a bust of Prince Charles Edward Stewart.

The hoop of the ring is inscribed, on white enamel, with the Latin words 'Dum Spirat Spero' ('While he breathes I hope'), and 'CPR' (for Charles, Prince Regent).

The ring was given to the Museum of Scotland in 1783 - five years before Prince Charles died - by Alexander Gairdner, an Edinburgh goldsmith. Most Jacobite jewellery dates from the period when the cause was effectively lost.

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