Description
the oval shell cameo carved with a male portrait profile, within a stiff leaf border, the cameo inscribed to reverse DUKE OF YORK, BY PHI. PISTRUCCI, 1827
Dimensions
4cm x 3.5cm
Footnote
Benedetto Pistrucci was a gem engraver and medalist. The work he is most famous appears every year on our gold coinage. He was responsible for the St George design on the sovereign and half sovereign. Pistrucci took over the position of Chief Medalist at the Royal Mint in London after the death of Thomas Wyon in 1817. There were difficulties in fully accepting the position owing to his Italian birth, however compromise was reached. This however didn't help the progress of his masterpiece celebrating Waterloo taking an eventual 33 years to come to fruition
This cameo offers a rare opportunity to purchase a piece of the master's work by his hand and with a subject matter of a member of the royal Family