A CARVED FLUORITE DRESS RINGThe carved and polished fluorite mythical beasts, on a later silver coloured wired frame, to tapering shankFinger size J, 38.5g grossProvenance:Dame Edith Sitwell DBE (1887-1964)Exhibited: National Portrait Gallery, London, 1994, The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920'S and 1930's, p. 151, 4.40 where suggested 'The fluorite ring, carved in the shape of two bears, is nineteenth-century Chinese workmanship, and was also in Edith's possession by 1950.' Condition Report The two mythical beasts were once joined, they are now broken apart into the two sections as they are now set, chips to ears and further places, and some fractures to stones, the setting has some wear commensurate with age and use, tarnishing.