A fine Dutch silver bridal casket

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY AMSTERDAM, CIRCA 1660, WITH LATER DUTY MARK FOR 1807

细节

A fine Dutch silver bridal casket
Apparently unmarked, probably Amsterdam, circa 1660, with later duty mark for 1807
Of rectangular form, on four ball feet, the base stepped, finely chased and cast with flowers and leafage, the hinged high-domed cover similarly decorated and centered by a typical "kwabornament" cartouche engraved with the arms of Douglas of Morton, surmounted by an Earl's coronet
12 cm. (4.6 in.) wide
traces of marking underneath
192 gr.

拍品专文

The arms are those of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton, who succeeded his cousin to the earldom in 1827 when his cousin died without heirs. He was born in 1789 and married in 1817, Frances, daughter of Sir George Rose. He died in 1858. The arms have been engraved between 1827 and 1858, since shown is the Douglas of Morton quaterly, impaling Rose
The casket is similar to work of Ludolf Drogestadt, who worked in Amsterdam in the second half of the 17th Century, cf. A.L. den Blaauwen, Exhibition catalogue, Dutch silver 1580-1830, The Hague, 1979, no. 65, p. 134 with illustration
see illustration