This is the left-hand view 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).
After Culloden, Charles escaped to France and then to Rome. By his death in 1788, the threat of an armed Jacobite revival was unthinkable. The cause became the subject of romantic nostalgia, expressed through poetry and song as well as objects and relics.
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