A Framed Suite of Six Victorian Hunting Roundels
Mounted on scarlet silk ground in a bevelled timber frame
- Period
- Late Victorian, circa 1890
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Materials
- Silver or silver-plate, silk, wood, glass, brass
- Dimensions
- —
- Condition
- —
$185
The Story
A matched suite of six late Victorian circular silver or silver-plated roundels, each die-stamped in low relief with a coursing greyhound running full tilt beneath an uncial gothic monogram, likely 'B.H.'. The lower field is lightly engraved with grasses to suggest open turf. Such roundels were typically produced as coursing club livery buttons, place-card holders, or elements of a hunt presentation set, celebrating competitive hare coursing in late nineteenth-century Britain.
The discs are symmetrically presented in two rows of three against a scarlet moiré silk backboard. The assembly is housed within a plain gilt slip and a broad, bevelled timber moulding, fitted with a brass suspension loop at the crest. Sealed under glass, the presentation preserves the natural surface patina and shallow relief of the silverwork.
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