Two Dutch silver marriage boxes
Two Dutch silver marriage boxes

POSSIBLY GRONINGEN, CA. 1710

Details
Two Dutch silver marriage boxes
Possibly Groningen, ca. 1710
Each of circular shape, one decorated with a flower pattern filled in with filigrain decoration, inside a token from 1696 after a design by Johannes Boskam, showing Jupiter on a horse-drawn carriage and inscribed MOTOS PRAESTAT COMPONERE FLUCTUS, marked on rim; the other decorated with a symmetrical scrolling pattern filled in with filigrain and centered with a flower-head
4.5 cm. diam. max.
72 gr. (2)
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Groninger Zilver, Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1975, no. 178
J.P. van Rijen, Groninger Keur - Zilver uit Stad en Ommelanden, Groningen, 1997, pp. 157-158, no. 113-114.
Exhibited
Groningen, Groninger Museum, Groninger zilver, 1975, no. 131.

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