AN ENAMELLED AND GOLD-MOUNTED AMBER CASKET

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AN ENAMELLED AND GOLD-MOUNTED AMBER CASKET
Circle of Georg Schreiber (active 1616-43) and later, the mounts circa 1870
Of architectural form, the body decorated with panels carved in relief with scrolling foliage, fruit and fantastical grotesque beasts, with half-length busts of men and woman above pilasters and volutes, the hinged lid surmounted by an amber snail, with elaborate pierced bracket feet, the interior opening to reveal engraved gilt-metal hinges and two reliefs under transparent amber, all on a later velvet-covered wooden plinth and under a rectangular perspex cover, (losses, damages, restorations)
5½ in. (14 cm.) high; 53/8 in. (13.6 cm.) wide; 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) deep
cm.) deep

Provenance

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. no(s). not known.

Literature

G. Reineking von Bock, Bernstein - Das Gold der Ostsee, Munich, 1981, pp. 88-98, figs. 113-34.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

As with the previous lot, this casket can be connected with the work of Georg Schreiber, who was working in Königsberg in the second quarter of the 17th Century. The present casket has had a number of subsequent alterations, not least the enamelled mounts, which must date from the later 19th Century, such enhancements being typical of the period.

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