A tour de force of the goldsmith's art this 18ct gold Georgian seal commemorates the birth of Edward Croker(1820-1892) in India. The chased and carved shells,garlands and feathers are so well modelled as to appear three dimensional,they are so crisply defined.The Mughal script on the bloodstone seal has the name Edward Croker and the date 1820.
The whole shape of the fob is reminiscent of c16th and c17th Mughal architecture with an onion dome top,the same domes that were employed by John Nash for the Brighton Pavillion a few years before this seal was made in 1815, and which also can be seen at Sezincote House in Gloucestershire in 1805.
At the time of this seal British India was becoming the "jewel in the crown" of the world's largest empire.
Height is 1.5 inches,the bloodstone seal is 1 inch by 3/4 inch.
 
Edward was the eldest son of Elizabeth and Lt. Col. William Croker who commanded the 17th Regiment in the British Army who had an illustrious amd well detailed career.They had been married at St.John's Church,Kolkata(Calcutta) 1819 one of the first buildings erected by the East India Company in British India.William was awarded the Order of the Doorance Empire by Shah Soojah on his restoration to the Afghan throne.
Edward married Catherine Keily in 1850 at St.Mary's Cheltenham,Gloucestershire and had five children including famed British Army General Sir Henry Leycester Croker(1864-1938).