The Baroque Skull Ring is a ring in 925 sterling silver holding a skull set inside a frame of baroque scrollwork, the curling, deeply cut ornament of seventeenth-century European design. The scrolls surround the skull on every side, so the head sits in the frame the way a portrait sits in a carved surround.That framing is the difference: the skull is not the whole ring but the subject of it, presented and enclosed the way baroque tombs and monuments set a death's head inside a larger composition. It is worn as an ornament in that tradition rather than as a religious piece.