seal

Object NameLetter Seal

Made FromLead glass, sulphide

Dateabout 1820-1840

Place MadeFrance; England

Techniqueencased, cut, molded sulphide

SizeOverall D: 4.1 cm, L: 8.4 cm

Accession Number84.3.135

Credit LineClara S. Peck Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass, white sulphide; encased, cut, molded sulphide. Tall, waisted shape, with bulbous, rounded top enclosing a molded sulphide bust-length portrait of a man, facing dexter, in a military uniform; reverse flat; encircled below by a ring of cut strawberry diamonds; stem panel cut, with a diamond-faceted ring at the center; above a conical cut knop and flared, panel-cut, octagonal seal, face cut flat and left plain.
Provenance

Source Louis Lyons - 1984-04-06
Purchased from Louis Lyons in 1984 using funds from the Clara S. Peck Endowment Fund. Catalogue cards say that these objects were a bequest of Clara S. Peck (by exchange).