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Description: | Five fob seals made with silver mounts with open stalks. All unmarked. 1) Cornelian wheel engraved in intaglio with the bust of a Roman soldier. The stalk is pierced with interlacing bands and C-scrolls, circa 1760. 2) Cornelian wheel engraved in intaglio with a crest of a couped lion's head with torso, the stalk with formal interlacings, circa 1760. 3) Cornelian wheel engraved in intaglio with a bust of a Roman Emperor, the stalk with interlacing bands and C-scrolls, circa 1760. 4) Cornelian engraved in intaglio with a shield of arms charged with a chevorn and three roundels, helm and elaborate mantling, the crest with a cannon, the finial in the form of a fleur-de-lys, circa 1730. 5) Opaque white glass wheel engraved in intaglio with a double image consisting of a combined head of a youth and an old man, circa 1765.
Technique: engraving (action)
Material: silver
Material: glass
seal made in England, Britain, Europe, (1922.1264/5). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.20431 | Go to resource |
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