£50
A Secessionist silver plate, tortoiseshell and lacquer jewel box, circa 1910, cylindrical drum form, the domed lid with central embossed Glasgow style rose within black lacquer and a border of tortoiseshell, the body relief moulded with geometric stepped fluting, the interior lined in velvet, 8.5cm diameter, 4.5cm high Note: reminiscent of the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hoffmann and Hans Christiansen, the geometric rose motif was one of the most popular symbols of the Secessionist and Glasgow School movements in Austria and Britain at the turn of the 20th century.
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