A Portuguese or Dutch colonial silver gilt filigree casket, ...

Hammer

£1,300

A Portuguese or Dutch colonial silver gilt filigree casket, unmarked, Goa or Batavia, mid 17th century, rectangular, the body and cover with a tight filigree ground of scrolling foliate motifs, the cusped cover with boteh type scrollling, the body in flowerhead centred panels, with side handlers, on conforming bracket feet, the interior gilt, 8cm x 11.5cm x 7.5cm (3 1/8in x 4 1/2in x 3in), 525g (16.85 oz) Provenance; sold with a receipt for £85 dated 30th November 1967 from Peter Gosling Antiques of Farnham Reference: Silver Wonders from the East: Filigree of the Tsars, Lund Humphries/Hermitage Amsterdam, cat. 37, pp. 43 and 111-112 for a closely comparable example transferred from the state services cabinet of the Winter Palace in 1789. Reference: Bonhams sale of Islamic and Indian Art, 6th October 2015, lot 108 for a similar casket. The cataloguer also cites a comparable example sold at Christie's King Street, Islamic Art, 11th October, 2005, lot 78. Also noting a filigree casket in the Museum Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon (inv. 114), with cover of very similar form

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Some slight bends in bracket feet, small loss to one side of hasp by hinge, key lacking, some wear to gilding especially to the cover