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Seal-box
Circular Freedom box or seal box with ribbed borders, the lid engraved with a view of the river Teme and Ludlow Castle in the distance.
To right woodcutters carrying faggots, and in the foreground a mother nursing an infant flanked by two other children.
On the base the Herbert arms with a laurel wreath border.
Humphrey Payne, (apprenticed 1694, Free 1701, d.1751) was the son of Nicholas Payne of Ludlow, Tallow Chandler.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 50337
Creation/Production
Payne, Humphrey
Date: 1722 ca
Acquisition
Purchase, 9/7/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.5
diam
(cm): 9.3
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
engraved
decoration
Applied Art
Material
silver
Location
Gallery 07B South
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