Spanish-Colonial, before 1656

Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, sunk Bahamas Channel, 4 January 1656, salvaged in 1986 by Captain Herbert Humphreys, inv. no. 3099;

Christie’s, London, 3 October 1990, lot 400;

Private collection, United Kingdom

H. Humphreys Jr, ‘Gold and Emerald Treasure from the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas,' in Christie’s, London, 3 October 1990, p. 39;

D. Scarisbrick, Rings: Symbols of Wealth, Power and Affection, London, 1993, p.78, pl. 99;

S. Kingsley, ‘The Race to Preserve Treasures from a Legendary 17th-Century Shipwreck’, in Smithsonian Magazine, Washington DC, 2022