THE ARMS OF NEVILLE IMPALING FRANKLAND OF THIRKLEBY, Co. YORK DESK SEAL
A FINE LATE 19TH CENTURY BLOODSTONE MULTI-MATRIX DESK SEAL
£7,560
Auction: 17 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
modelled as an armoured leg, the oval bloodstone terminal engraved with the armorial, rose and portcullis, the bloodstone heel engraved with motto NE VILE VELIS, rose and portcullis
Dimensions
10cm (high overall), 1.8cm x 1.5cm (matrix)
Provenance
Ralph Neville Granville and thence by descent
Christie's London, 8th March 1995, lot 162
The Matrix Collection
Footnote
The arms are those of Neville impaling Frankland for Ralph Neville Grenville (1817-1886) M.P. of Butleigh Court, Somerset and his wife Julia Roberta (d.1892) daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, 7th Bt whom he married in 1845