Our naughty great grandparents... "The triumph of Priapus"

A classy 18th-century ring with an image that, once you understand what you're looking at, will make you giggle. The image is known as "The Triumph of Priapus," and we even found some 18th-century drawings of this scene in the collection of The British Museum. As far as we have been able to determine, only a few of these rings with this design are known to exist. We were fortunate enough to find a fascinating thesis by Raimon Graells i Fabregat (2011), in which he delves fully into the history of this ring.

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