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MID-18TH CENTURY
Details
A NORTH ITALIAN GREEN, PARCEL-GILT AND SILVERED SEWING-CASKET
Mid-18th Century
The shaped hinged top with a pin-cushion covered in light-brown material, enclosing a purple and green marbled interior, the underside of the top with a framed low-relief portrait of St George killing the dragon flanked on each side by a winged putto and trailing flowers, the sides of the casket with mirror panels and canted rectangular landscape panels, the front with a pair of putti supporting a shield with a dragon, all on a latice ground, above a waved apron centred by a shell, on paw feet, inscribed in ink to the underside '1490 NNL', with printed paper label 'Albrecht Prinz v.Hohenzollern Mnchen nr.767', two mirror plates cracked
8 in. (20 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep
Mid-18th Century
The shaped hinged top with a pin-cushion covered in light-brown material, enclosing a purple and green marbled interior, the underside of the top with a framed low-relief portrait of St George killing the dragon flanked on each side by a winged putto and trailing flowers, the sides of the casket with mirror panels and canted rectangular landscape panels, the front with a pair of putti supporting a shield with a dragon, all on a latice ground, above a waved apron centred by a shell, on paw feet, inscribed in ink to the underside '1490 NNL', with printed paper label 'Albrecht Prinz v.Hohenzollern Mnchen nr.767', two mirror plates cracked
8 in. (20 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep
Provenance
Albrecht, Prinz von Hohenzollern and thence inherited by The Queen of Portugal.