A VARI-COLOURED ENAMELLED BRONZE JEWELLERY CASKET, designed and executed by Jan Eisenloeffel, rectangular shape, on four octagonal and stepped feet, the hinged cover applied with knob-grip, enamelled in shades of purple, orange, green, yellow, blue and white, the walls decorated with octagonals enclosing roundels, each enamelled with a stylized cat or dog, the central octagonal at the front applied with a similarly decorated roundel by a small screw to reveal the lock, the side walls each with two small hexafoil panels engraved with circles enclosing inscriptions: ONTWERP EN UITVOERING one with DOOR JAN EISENLOEFFEL and artist's monogram JE, one with JUNI 1912 BLARICUM and one with a stylized rosette, the cover decorated with a central circle enclosing a roundel enamelled with a stylized bird in flight, all within a central field with a border of interlocking pellets, the four canted corners cast with stylized pea-pods incorporating rosettes and the upper and lower rim with a continuous row of small stylized pea-pods, the inside cover with pricked linear, curvelinear and pellet decoration and engraved with monogram WvdS within a roundel, 191219cm high x 26.2cm long x 19cm. deep

A VARI-COLOURED ENAMELLED BRONZE JEWELLERY CASKET, designed and executed by Jan Eisenloeffel, rectangular shape, on four octagonal and stepped feet, the hinged cover applied with knob-grip, enamelled in shades of purple, orange, green, yellow, blue and white, the walls decorated with octagonals enclosing roundels, each enamelled with a stylized cat or dog, the central octagonal at the front applied with a similarly decorated roundel by a small screw to reveal the lock, the side walls each with two small hexafoil panels engraved with circles enclosing inscriptions: ONTWERP EN UITVOERING one with DOOR JAN EISENLOEFFEL and artist's monogram JE, one with JUNI 1912 BLARICUM and one with a stylized rosette, the cover decorated with a central circle enclosing a roundel enamelled with a stylized bird in flight, all within a central field with a border of interlocking pellets, the four canted corners cast with stylized pea-pods incorporating rosettes and the upper and lower rim with a continuous row of small stylized pea-pods, the inside cover with pricked linear, curvelinear and pellet decoration and engraved with monogram WvdS within a roundel, 1912 19cm high x 26.2cm long x 19cm. deep

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A VARI-COLOURED ENAMELLED BRONZE JEWELLERY CASKET, designed and executed by Jan Eisenloeffel, rectangular shape, on four octagonal and stepped feet, the hinged cover applied with knob-grip, enamelled in shades of purple, orange, green, yellow, blue and white, the walls decorated with octagonals enclosing roundels, each enamelled with a stylized cat or dog, the central octagonal at the front applied with a similarly decorated roundel by a small screw to reveal the lock, the side walls each with two small hexafoil panels engraved with circles enclosing inscriptions: ONTWERP EN UITVOERING one with DOOR JAN EISENLOEFFEL and artist's monogram JE, one with JUNI 1912 BLARICUM and one with a stylized rosette, the cover decorated with a central circle enclosing a roundel enamelled with a stylized bird in flight, all within a central field with a border of interlocking pellets, the four canted corners cast with stylized pea-pods incorporating rosettes and the upper and lower rim with a continuous row of small stylized pea-pods, the inside cover with pricked linear, curvelinear and pellet decoration and engraved with monogram WvdS within a roundel, 1912
19cm high x 26.2cm long x 19cm. deep

Lot Essay

The bronzed copper and enamelled buckle designed by Jan Eisenloeffel and illustrated in Klokken Zilver Sieraden 1900-1930 is signed with his monogram, Blaricum and dated 1909-1912. The buckle has the same decoration as the roundel which covers the lock on the jewellery casket offered for sale here. It seems more than likely that both objects were commissioned by the same person.

cf. Elsevier's geïllustreerd maandschrift, 1917, issue 10, pp. 241-251, Herman Hana, "Hollandsche Nijverheidskunst Jan Eisenloeffel" were this casket is illustrated
Herman Dommisse e.a., Klokken Zilver Sieraden 1900-1930, Nederlands Goud-, zilver en klokkenmuseum, 1985, p. 11 & 12, no. 92, for an illustration of the above mentioned buckle

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