A REGENCY SILVER SEAL BOX

MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL, LONDON, 1819

Details

A REGENCY SILVER SEAL BOX
MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL, LONDON, 1819
Circular, with acorn and oak border, the hinged cover cast and chased with Royal arms, marked on base and cover bezel, also marked 8
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diameter; 19 oz. (605 gr.)

Provenance

The Albert Collection

Literature

Robin Butler, The Albert Collection: Five Hundred Years of British and European Silver, 2004, p. 63, cat. no. 3157

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Lot Essay

Seal boxes were used to contain and preserve the seals of important documents. Another seal box by Paul Storr, 1818, with Royal arms is illustrated in Joseph R. Bliss, The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver on Loan to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, n.d., cat. no. 49.

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