Maker: Unknown
Desk seal with carnelian sealstone and facetted red jasper handle with chased gold mounts
Carved carnelian and red jasper with chased gold mounts. Oval carnelian sealstone with an intaglio coat-of-arms within a garter inscribed 'TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO' with a pendant order and ribbon inscribed 'ICH DIEN', and a crest. Eight sided jasper handle broadening towards the rounded terminal. The domed mount decorated with flutes and bands of reeding.
History note: The Martin family of Lockynge, Berkshire
Spencer George Perceval Bequest
Height: 1.6 cm
Length: 9.3 cm
Width: 1.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922-03-07) by Perceval, Spencer George
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Mid#
Circa
1780
-
Circa
1850
Handle
composed of
jasper, red
Sealstone
composed of
carnelian
Length 1.7 cm
Width 1.4 cm
Mount
composed of
gold
Accession number: PER.M.40-1923
Primary reference Number: 151622
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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