£945
A Private Collection of Seals: Highlights from The Matrix Collection | 749
Auction: 19 May 2023 at 11:00 BST
the naturalistic vine leaves trailing around an architectural column forming the handle, the domed integral matrix with scroll foliate mount, the matrix engraved with arms and supporters
Heraldry:
Arms: Gules a boar’s head erased argent
Crest: A dexter hand holding a dagger erect proper on the point a boar’s head couped gules
Supporters: Two savages wreathed head and middle with laurel with clubs over their shoulders proper
Mottos:
(above the crest) Feros ferio [I strike the fierce]
(below the arms) Vi aut virtute [By strength and valour]