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POSSIBLY GRONINGEN, CA. 1710
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Two Dutch silver marriage boxes
Possibly Groningen, ca. 1710
Each of circular shape, one decorated with a flower pattern filled in with filigrain decoration, inside a token from 1696 after a design by Johannes Boskam, showing Jupiter on a horse-drawn carriage and inscribed MOTOS PRAESTAT COMPONERE FLUCTUS, marked on rim; the other decorated with a symmetrical scrolling pattern filled in with filigrain and centered with a flower-head
4.5 cm. diam. max.
72 gr. (2)
Possibly Groningen, ca. 1710
Each of circular shape, one decorated with a flower pattern filled in with filigrain decoration, inside a token from 1696 after a design by Johannes Boskam, showing Jupiter on a horse-drawn carriage and inscribed MOTOS PRAESTAT COMPONERE FLUCTUS, marked on rim; the other decorated with a symmetrical scrolling pattern filled in with filigrain and centered with a flower-head
4.5 cm. diam. max.
72 gr. (2)
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Groninger Zilver, Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1975, no. 178
J.P. van Rijen, Groninger Keur - Zilver uit Stad en Ommelanden, Groningen, 1997, pp. 157-158, no. 113-114.
J.P. van Rijen, Groninger Keur - Zilver uit Stad en Ommelanden, Groningen, 1997, pp. 157-158, no. 113-114.
Exhibited
Groningen, Groninger Museum, Groninger zilver, 1975, no. 131.
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