Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Stockholm Silver gilt and Filigree Beaker.



A Late 17th Century Swedish Silver gilt Silver Filigree Beaker.

It would originally have had a lid

Marks for Stockholm, 1698,

and later marks St Peterburg 1780,  Y. BOROVSHIKOV.


Height 12 cm, diam. 9 cm.

For comparison, two similar beakers were donated by King Charles XII of Swe
den to Tsar Peter the Great in 1699.


Lot 249 - 18  Dec 2024  Wannenes Art Auctions, Milan, Italy.

I have written at some length on this form of Scandinavian beaker.

see - https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-late-17th-century-silver-and-silver.html









Saturday, 30 November 2024

Etui/writing set in a filigree case.

 

Filigree silver writing/etui set,  18th Century.


The casket containing seventeen accoutrements including pounce pots, pencil, bottles with stoppers, seal box, ivory aide memoir and box seal with hardstone matrix carved with the bust of a gentleman to sinister, 94mm.

Coming up for sale - Gorringes Auctions Lewes  Lot 15, 10 December 2024

https://bid.gorringes.co.uk/auctions/9113/srgo10448/lot-details/24a9afac-5027-4676-b825-b23700b5ecf4









































Wednesday, 20 November 2024

 

Silver Filigree Cencer.

Oriental Art Auctions -Auction House - Hattemerbroek ,, Netherlands.

Lot 345, 28 November 2024.

They say Ottoman - 19th Century.

Height 14 cm. Diameter 15 cm.

https://www.orientalartauctions.com/object/art3006500-a-fine-ottoman-silver-filigree-censer-19th-century


Here suggested as Cuttack, Orissa, India 19th Century.

In case anyone should feel inclined to argue; for my proofs - see -


https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/09/silver-filigree-rosewater-sprinklers.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/11/silver-filigree-caskets-made-in-cuttack.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-marked-silver-filigree-casket-by.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/18th19-century-indian-silver-filigree.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/02/some-18th-century-indian-silver.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/03/an-indian-silver-filigree-candle-holder.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/10/photograph-of-indian-casket-mak.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/brodick-castle-gold-filigree-casket.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-filigree-casket-at-gulbenkian-museum.html



































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For a selection of Ottoman Cencers see -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/sothebys-catalogue-note-another.html

Ottoman Inkwell

 

Ottoman Silver Filigree Inkwell.

Height 5.5 cm. diam 5.2 cm.

Optimistically Catalogued as 16th Century.

Here pessimistically described as (late?) 19th Century.

Provenance - Henri-René d'Allemagne Collection, Nicolas Landau, then Gérard Wahl-Boyer.

see my post -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-19th-century-ottoman-silver-filigree.html

Lot 213 - 27 November, Giquello, 5, rue de la Boétie - 75008 Paris - France.


The lozenge shaped connectors are characteristic of 19th Century Ottoman Filigree work.




Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Silver Filigree framed Portrait Miniature.

 

Late 17th Century Portrait Miniature in a Silver Filigree Frame.

Attributed to JACQUES-ANTOINE ARLAUD (1668-1746).


With the Limner Company November 2024.

https://www.portraitminiature.com/177-arlaud-lennox

Probably Charles Lennox, first duke of Richmond, first duke of Lennox, and duke of Aubigny in the French nobility (1672–1723), wearing black gown/doublet with lace cravat and red ribbon, black hat with red and white feathers; c.1685

Watercolour on vellum

 Oval, 2 ¾ in. (70 mm) high

 Silver frame with fillagree border, the reverse with cipher ‘ADR’ and ducal coronet on a leather panel

 

Cipher: ADR – standing for Aubigny, Duke (of) Richmond. 

Circa 1682 (when in France with his mother).

 

Provenance: Christie's, London, 10 July 1984, lot 54 (unidentified artist and sitter).















 

The Scots Magazine, Volume 21.

1759.
















17th/ 18th Century German Perfume / scent Bottle Box.

  17th Century German Filigree Perfume Box. probably Schwabisch Gmund. 7 Compartments  6.7cm x 6.5cm x 3.4cm.   Repairs to two of the feet...