Saturday 4 February 2023

The Dutch Museums Part 5; 18th Century Silver Filigree Buckets.


Some 17th and 18th Century Filigree in Dutch Museums.

Part 5.


Three 18th Century? Silver Filigree Buckets.

Two in the Dutch Museums

another with Michael Backman.

Given the individual comma shaped elements I would again suggest Indian manufacture.

Cuttack or Karimnagar,


These objects are so similar that they must have come from the same workshop





Height 7.6 cms.




Height 8cms

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Height 10.2 cms.

Images and references here from Michael Backman (thank you once again).

Dias, P., Thailand and Portugal – 500 Years of a Common Past: The Art Legacy – The Tavaro Sequeira Pinto Collection, Grafica de Coimbra, 2011.

 Jordan, A. et al, The Heritage of Rauluchantim, Museu de Sao Roque, 1996.

 Seipal, W. (ed.), Exotica: Portugals Entdeckungen im Spiegel furstlicher Kusnt – und Wunderkammern der Renaissance, Skira, 2000.

 Taullard, A., Plateria Sudemericana, Ediciones Espeula de Plata, 2004.


https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/object/rare-indo-portuguese-ceremonial-gilded-silver-filigree-flower-basket/

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