Some Caskets on the Market in 2024.

 

Some Silver Filigree Caskets for Sale in 2024.

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Casket for sale in Lisbon.

8 x 13 x 8 cms.

 Renascimento Auctions, Lot 99, 8 May 2024.

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Very Fine and Large Silver Filigree Casket with Messrs Zebregs Roell.

17th/ 18th Century.

This casket is one of a group of similar pieces.

W. 19.5 x D. 12.2 x H. 13 cm

https://zebregsroell.com/product/large-indonesian-filigree-casket

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Another Little Casket With Zebregs Roell.

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Another Casket with Messrs Zebregs Roell.

They say Pedang West Sumatra.

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I remain to be convinced.

H. 8.4 x W. 22.5 x D. 15.3 cm

https://zebregsroell.com/product/filigree-silver-box-for-sale

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Another Casket with Zebregs Roell.

https://gallerease.com/index.php/en/artworks/an-indian-silver-filigree-casket-with-hinged-cover__bac2cd049450

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The Casket Previously with Bearnes.

Lot 356, 27 Feb 2024.

8 x 11.5 x 7.5 cms.

Bought Michael Backman see photographs from his website below.

The Casket now with Michael Backman

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Miniature Silver Filigree Casket with Enamel Insets.

South German - The Panels probably Schwabisch Gmund.

3.4 x 4.8 x 3.4 cm.

18th Century.

For Sale with Lempertz Koln Germany.

Lot 574 14 November, 2024

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A Very fine Ottoman? Casket

18th /19th Century?

7.5 x 11 x 6.3 cms

The Lozenge shaped Elements suggest Turkish Origin - possibly Istanbul.

With Lempertz Koln

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A Filigree Casket converted into a Tea Caddy.

17th/18th Century.

With 5 Lateral Domes and Shaped Skirt.

I suggest Dutch or German.

Length 16.5 cms.

Offered for Sale by Christie's, Paris. Lot 483, on line sale finished 24 April 2024.

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collector-paris/coffret-en-filigrane-et-sa-boite-en-argent-483/218283

The Caddy with the marks of Reynier Brandt, Amsterdam 1777.

As usual with this sort of object Christies suggest its origin is given as Batavia but this should be treated with caution. Certainly similar pieces were made in Europe

 

On shaped apron, the body with side scroll handles, the hinged undulating cover with hinged clasp and holding chains, with tea caddy of plain rectangular form with sliding cover and beaded borders, in its original brass-mounted box, lined with bright blue silk and velvet, complete with two keys, marked to underside of the caddy.

 For several other caskets which have been converted to tea caddies see my post -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-two-f-ries-museum-silver-filigree.html

Jan van Campen in "Een kleine ronde draadwerkse doosie" en andere voorwerpen van zilverdraadwerk uit Azie" in: Aziatische kunst 31 mars 2001, pp. 36-53, attributes a group of boxes very similar to the one shown here to the city of Batavia. These chests were probably betel boxes, which were imported to Holland in the seventeenth century to be transformed into tea chests.

Several tea chests made by Reynier Brandt are known, including one dated 1754 sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, on 27 April 2004, lot 251

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collector-paris/coffret-en-filigrane-et-sa-boite-en-argent-483/218283

 

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Another 17th/18th Century Filigree Casket altered to contain tea caddies by Reynier Brandt of Amsterdam was sold by Bonhams, 20 July 2016.

Length 14.5 cms.

Bonham's London, Lot 349, 20 July 2016.

 It appears to me that the clasp is a replacement and the locating slot on the front is an adaptation.

 They say -

"The caddies by Reynier Brandt, Amsterdam, 1754, the casket possible Batavian, all three piece marked with the later Dutch 'I' mark"

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/23467/lot/349/an-18th-century-silver-filigree-casket-and-two-dutch-tea-caddies-the-caddies-by-reynier-brandt-amsterdam-1754-the-casket-possible-batavian-all-three-piece-marked-with-the-later-dutch-i-mark-3/

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The Christie's Amsterdam Silver Filigree Casket with Two Caddies by Reynier Brandt. 

Mark on Caddies for 1754.

16.5 cms wide.

Sold Lot 251. 27 April. 2004.

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-3-a-dutch-silver-filigree-casket-4260446/?lid=4&sc_lang=zh-cn

Annoyingly we cannot see the top - has it been enamelled?