A GEORGE IV ENAMELLED GOLD HAND-SEAL
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A GEORGE IV ENAMELLED GOLD HAND-SEAL

CIRCA 1820

Closed5 December 2012

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GBP 4,000

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A GEORGE IV ENAMELLED GOLD HAND-SEAL
CIRCA 1820
Formed as a hand wearing a chased gold gauntlet and clutching a baton with quartz matrix with cypher, the upper sleave with black taille d'épargne enamel with chased gold-mounted bloodstone matrix later engraved with a coat-of-arms
2½ in. (65 mm.) high
The arms are those of Lascelles impaling de Burgh for Henry, 4th Earl of Harewood (1824-1892) and his wife Elizabeth, (d. 1804), daughter of Ulick, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (1802-1874), whom he married in 1845.

Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood (1824-1892) and his wife
Elizabeth Lascelles, Countess of Harewood (1826-1854), and by descent
at Harewood House, Yorkshire.