Desk seal
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory, Leather, Metal, Silk, Stone, Velvet
Measurements
90 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638003
Summary
A desk seal with an ivory handle carved in the form of a naked boy standing on a lotus blossom. The oval bloodstone seal, carved with a winged griffin and a lion, contained in a cast silver mount attached to the base of the carved ivory lotus flower. The whole contained in a domed rectangular fitted plum coloured leather case (b).
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.