Lot Essay
The British Museum hold a lead heart burial urn dated 1586, of similar pudding basin shape. Their example bares similarities in that the inscription is also incised in three tiers, reads: HER LITH THE HARTE OF SIR HENRY SYDNEY L. P. ANNO DOMNI 1586, here the words are intersected by heart-shaped motifs. The cover with arms within the Garter.