The shells are carved with portrait profiles of Brownlow, 2nd Marquess of Exeter, KG (1795-1867) and his wife Isabella (1803-1879), daughter of William Stephen Poyntz of Cowdray. They are depicted as a Roman Emperor and Empress.
Categories: Exhibitions | Objects of Vertu | The Victorians at Burghley |
A pair of oval shell cameos, circa 1835.
REFERENCE: VER12033
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