English gold seal dedicated to an adpoted child

An image of Jewellery/Seal. Unknown Maker. Gold. In place of the engraved stone there is, under glass, on a ground of woven fair hair, an urn on a pedestal in white enamel and gilt metal. The pedestal is inscribed T.G. ob: 1790, round this runs the inscription in gilt metal reserved in white enamel, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF AN ADOPTED CHILD. English. Circa 1790.

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Jewellery/Seal. Unknown Maker. Gold. In place of the engraved stone there is, under glass, on a ground of woven fair hair, an urn on a pedestal in white enamel and gilt metal. The pedestal is inscribed T.G. ob: 1790, round this runs the inscription in gilt metal reserved in white enamel, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF AN ADOPTED CHILD. English. Circa 1790.

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Accession Number: PER.M.274-1923
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 849 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 184.74kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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18th Century Date Department English Fitz_AA Georgian Material Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd bezel blonde commemoration commemorative dated dedication glass gold hair inscribed inscriptions jewellery jewelry memorials oval pedestal seal sentimental urns

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