Silver Filigree Casket - The Video on Youtube.

 

A Video on Youtube of a 17th/18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.

With the attribution of manufacture to Goa or Batavia.

I suggest probably Dutch.

For comparison with similar caskets see my previous posts.

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/spectacular-and-large-silver-gilt.html

and

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/17-th-century-silver-filigree-casket-in.html

Suggested here as probably of Dutch manufacture - the shape and form is that of the traditional Marriage Casket or Knottekistje - it was definitely not made in Goa.

Hugo Miguel Crespo of Lisbon University assures me that there is not a shred of evidence of any filigree being manufactured in Goa.

It is possible that it was manufactured in Batavia, using local craftsmen under a Dutch master, but I believe that in this case, unlikely.

The opening button should be compared with that on the New York Hispanic Society Casket currently in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. and the bosses on the Dresden Casket.

see my post - https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/17-th-century-silver-filigree-casket-in.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00p8j-0QDgc

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https://xvii.es/cofre-indo-portugues-goa-batavia-holanda-s-xvii/

The Youtube Silver Filigree Casket.

 Height x Width x Background. 9 x 6 x 10.5 cm.

For comparisons see the illustrations below  -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/17-th-century-silver-filigree-casket-in.html

Sächs HStA Dresden, Loc. 756, fol. 56v; Köhlerrechnungen:

Sächs HStA Dresden, Loc. 354, Acta Chatoullen Sachen betr.1718-1728, 1742-1747, vol. 1, fol. 13;

Pretioseninventar 1725, fol. 126r. Grünes Gewölbe, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,

Inv. Nr. IV 179.

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Menshikova, whilst a useful introduction to the subject of 17th and 18th Century silver filigree is not to be trusted - the whole catalogue needs to be rewritten

 in the light of recent research -

Refs. Sponsel 1925, Bd. 1, S. 128, Taf. 27; 

Moskau 2006, S. 72f., Nr. 25 ( Maria Menshikova ); Amsterdam 2006, S. 65 — 67 und S. 113, Kat. Nr

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For Comparison.

From the 2014 Catalogue of Dutch dealer Guus Röell Uit verre streken (from distant shores).

This casket is so similar to the above that it must be from the same workshop.

http://guusroell.com/Roell_Art_Antiques_2014.pdf

I am very grateful to Messrs Zebregs Roell for permission to use their material.

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Note the detail of the button.

Silver Filigree Casket, Sold Bonham's London.

Lot 108, 6 October 2015.

I suspect the original bun feet have been replaced.

11.5 x 15.8 x 10 cms.

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/22816/lot/108/an-indo-portuguese-silver-filigree-casket-probably-goa-western-india-17th-century/

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The New York Hispanic Society Casket.

17th Century Domed Top Silver Filigree Casket.

whilst the front and side panels lack the thicker silver wire arabesques the top has very similar work to the panels of the Dresden casket

In its original sharkskin case.

Currently on loan to the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Casket size - 12.4 cms wide x 8.6cms tall.

Nb. no lock on the casket.

Note in particular the feet and many similarities in technique with the Dresden Casket.

On loan from the Hispanic Society of America, New York.

Another casket attributed to Goa without any concrete evidence.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/650301

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The Grunes Gewolbe, Dresden 17th/18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.

This is probably the largest version of a 17th / 18th century Silver Filigree Casket extant.

Probably of Dutch manufacture perhaps by a craftsman originating from Augsburg or Nuremberg.

The work on the spectacular clock in the Victoria and Albert Museum signed by Conraedt Breghtel (1609 - 1675) of the Hague come to mind. Breghtel was originally from Nuremberg, his busiess was continued by his son in law.

see https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O110573/clock-breghtel-hans-conraedt/

see my post https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-magnificent-dutch-clock.html

It should also be compared with the writing box of William II now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg almost certainly made by a Goldsmith working in Holland.

I have already written at some length on the Grunes Gewolbe casket.

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/17-th-century-silver-filigree-casket-in.html

This casket is first mentioned in the inventory of Lichtenburg castle 1717, when it was in possession of Anna Sophia (the mother of Augutsus the Strong):

 “4eckigtes silbernes Kästgen von durchbrochener Arbeit mit einem gewölbten Deckel, worinnen 2 Fächer“.

 

 With the establishment of the Green Vault as a treasury with public access under Augustus the Strong (1723-1729), the casket was transferred to the Preciosa Room of the collection in 1724. 

Unfortunately, there are no sources about the acquisition of the casket.. 

Width 20 cms.

The side handles of both these pieces have very similar terminals and the round drop handles also appear to be of the same type.

https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/218910#