APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY THE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS OR GERMANY, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

Details

A silver spice container
Apparently unmarked, probably the Southern Netherlands or Germany, first half 17th century
The ball-shaped body with six compartments engraved with three circular medallions depicting a young man a crowned lady and a bisshop surrounded by foliage and fruit, the hinged compartments with sliding covers numbered 1-6 engraved with the words: KANEL, MUSCAT, NEGELKEN, SCHLAG, ROSEN, CITRON, the inner stem and sides engraved with foliage and fruit, the engraved screw-off base with scoop
5.8 cm. high
80 gr.

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Lot Essay

For a comparable spice-container see: Important English Silver from a New England Collection, Christie's New York, 16 April 1999, lot 246, illustrated.
and B.W.G. Wttewaall, Nederlands Klein Zilver 1680-1880, Amsterdam, 1987, no. 88, p. 65, illustrated.
and Heiner Meininghaus, Christa Habrich, Düfte und edle Flakons aus fünf Jahrhunderten, Vitoria, 1998, no. 13, p. 58, illustrated.

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