19th-Century Gilt Bronze Wax Seal with Classical Female Bust and Script Monogram Vintage

19th-Century Gilt Bronze Wax Seal with Classical Female Bust and Script Monogram VintageGilt bronze wax seal featuring a cast classical female bust with softly modeled facial features, wavy hair arranged up and back and draped classical style garment. The bust is mounted on a slender, tapered handle with a baluster form shaft and circular foot. The underside terminates in a flat circular sealing matrix engraved with an intertwined script monogram, likely representing the initials of the original owner. The surface exhibits worn gilding

Interior with two original cut crystal perfume bottles with gilded accents

A small cast bronze tripod bowl raised on three sculptural supports formed as stylized mythological creatures — possibly griffins

Victorian silver-plated double cruet/condiement holder with cut glass button jars (1870-1890)

Octagonal base and thick capital/top plate: Provides stability and adds to its visual weight

5” wide × 9” deep

with a scalloped upper edge and stepped base

Published by Thomas Y Cromwell & Company

Inlay is a combo of brass

facsimile autograph of Pope Pius X granting benediction to the volume

Tramp art is a folk art style that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Hand-painted polychrome floral and scrollwork motif in yellow

featruing quatrefoil and circular motifs reminiscent of cathedral tracery