Gold and enamel mourning band ring Probably Boston, MA,...

Gold and enamel mourning band ring

Probably Boston, MA, dated 1800

With inscription, "JONATHAN. LORING. OB: 10. MAR: 1800. AE: 55," against black enamel ground, seemingly unmarked.

Ring size: 9 1/4

PROVENANCE:

The Collection of Irvin & Anita Schorsch.
Jonathan Trace, purchased Christie's New York, Important American Furniture & Silver, January 27, 1996, Sale 8342, Lot 103.

According to Charles Henry Pope's Loring Genealogy (Murray and Emery Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1917), a Jonathan Loring was born in Hull, Massachusetts on November 18, 1744. He married Margaret Davidson (d. 1822) and was a tailor, who resided in Boston. He died in 1800.