Lot Essay
For a comparable casket with metal-gilt mounts see: Anonymous sale, Christie's Amsterdam, The Dutch Interior, 25 September 2001, lot 485, illustrated.
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POSSIBLE ANTWERP, CIRCA 1680 (HINGES ARE LATER)
Details
A Flemish silver-mounted tortoiseshell casket
POSSIBLE ANTWERP, CIRCA 1680 (hinges are later)
Rectangular, on four silver lion supports, the silver corners embossed with flowers, similar decorated shaped mounts around the lock, the silver hinged and domed cover with a silver plaque chased and embossed with a coat-of-arms, fitted with a shaped swing handle, the interior lined with a trompe l'oeil painted garden landscape and set with mirrors to three sides
35.5 cm. wide
POSSIBLE ANTWERP, CIRCA 1680 (hinges are later)
Rectangular, on four silver lion supports, the silver corners embossed with flowers, similar decorated shaped mounts around the lock, the silver hinged and domed cover with a silver plaque chased and embossed with a coat-of-arms, fitted with a shaped swing handle, the interior lined with a trompe l'oeil painted garden landscape and set with mirrors to three sides
35.5 cm. wide
Provenance
With A.C. Beeling, Leeuwarden, 1988.
Literature
Catalogue of the exhibition, 40e Oude Kunst - & Antiekbeurs, Delft, 12 t/m 27 Oktober 1988, p. 48, illustrated.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
Please note that the hinges are later.