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A FINE AUSTRIAN SILVER-GILT, LAPIS LAZULI, ENAMEL AND ROCK CRYSTAL CASKET
A FINE AUSTRIAN SILVER-GILT, LAPIS LAZULI, ENAMEL AND ROCK CRYSTAL CASKET

MAKER'S MARK OF KARL RSSLER, VIENNA, CIRCA 1890

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A FINE AUSTRIAN SILVER-GILT, LAPIS LAZULI, ENAMEL AND ROCK CRYSTAL CASKET
Maker's mark of Karl Rssler, Vienna, circa 1890
In the Renaissance style, rectangular on four turtles supports, the base with panelling enclosing jewelled medallions, with caryatids at the corners and supporting rock crystal twisted columns with wirework surmounted by figures of knights and warriors and mermaids blowing trumpets at the corners, the casket pierced with niches enclosing classical figures with attributes in the round, the slanted upper part with similar jewelled medallions and atlantes at intervals, the hinged cover surmounted by a seated couple in exotic costumes holding a dog on a leash, with original suede-lined leather case, marked on casket and cover
The casket 11in. (27.8cm.) high, 11in. (27.8cm) long

拍品专文

Rssler described his speciality in "Kunstgewerbliche Gegenstande in Gold und Silber und Antique-Imitation" in a directory of 1898 (Waltraud Neuwirth, Lexicon Wiener Gold - und Silberschmiede, Vienna, 1977, p. 152).