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UNMARKED, LATE 19TH CENTURY
细节
A German silver-gilt, gilt-metal and enamel large casket
Unmarked, late 19th century
Oblong and with cut-corners, architecturally conceived as a gothic casket, with grouped columns on the angles with scroll, foliage and animal capitals and with lion sejant finials, the rim supported by brackets and decorated beneath wit putto, mask and garland frieze, with two scroll drop-ring handles with grotesque mask terminals, the hinged slightly domed cover chased to simiulate tiles and with scroll and husk balustrade and scaly-dolphin and anthemion angles, all on four grotesque mask, shell and scroll feet, and with grostesque mask and foliage apron between, the sides and cover with central classical scene within grotesque putto, mask, animal, garland and strapwork cartouche, the angles each applied with a standing figures within a niche, a soldier, huntman, and two musicians, with demi-male figure above, the front and back enamelled with two coats-of-arms either side of the central scene and chased beneath with a hunting scene, further applied with panels of scrollwork and enamelled portrait busts
27in. (69cm.) long
The scene on the cover is of Vulcan in his forge, the scene on the sides are of Diana the Huntress, Venus and Cupid,
Unmarked, late 19th century
Oblong and with cut-corners, architecturally conceived as a gothic casket, with grouped columns on the angles with scroll, foliage and animal capitals and with lion sejant finials, the rim supported by brackets and decorated beneath wit putto, mask and garland frieze, with two scroll drop-ring handles with grotesque mask terminals, the hinged slightly domed cover chased to simiulate tiles and with scroll and husk balustrade and scaly-dolphin and anthemion angles, all on four grotesque mask, shell and scroll feet, and with grostesque mask and foliage apron between, the sides and cover with central classical scene within grotesque putto, mask, animal, garland and strapwork cartouche, the angles each applied with a standing figures within a niche, a soldier, huntman, and two musicians, with demi-male figure above, the front and back enamelled with two coats-of-arms either side of the central scene and chased beneath with a hunting scene, further applied with panels of scrollwork and enamelled portrait busts
27in. (69cm.) long
The scene on the cover is of Vulcan in his forge, the scene on the sides are of Diana the Huntress, Venus and Cupid,