The 17th. Century Silver Filigree Domed Lidded Casket in the Green Room, (Grunes Gewolbe) at Dresden.
(Post in preparation).
Updated 19 April 2023.
Illustrated here are several (I believe) related caskets.
They are form of Dutch, particularly Fresian marriage caskets or chests (Knottekistje). The most common type is the silver domed trunk-shaped on four ball
supports with domed cover and swing handle.
I will in due course attempt to assemble images of all the caskets of this type that I have so far located.
These blog posts are in the form of a diary and contain my thoughts whilst writing them - sort of stream of consciousness - nothing is set in stone and my thoughts might well change in the future, currently my thinking is that these pieces are Northern European.
There is no comparable dome top casket in the Hermitage, St Petersburg Collection.
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The 17th/18th Century Grunes Gewolbe, Dresden Silver Filigree Casket.
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, no sources about
the acquisition of the casket are known.
Width 20 cms.
I have just received further photographs of this casket from Dirk Weber Curator at the Green Room.
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#
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I have just received Wednesday 19 April 2023 the following three photographs and details of the provenance of The Grunes Gewolbe Casket from Dirk Weber - Curator at the Grunes Gewolbe.
I most grateful to Dirk Weber for his correspondence and the following photographs.
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A 17th/18th Century Silver Filigree Domed Casket.
Probably The Netherlands.
Unknown location.
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For Comparison.
Silver Filigree Casket Sold Bonham's London.
Lot 108, 6 October 2015.
I suspect the original bun feet have been replaced.
Also compare with the silver gilt Khalili Casket.
see my post.
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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.
Images above from the New York Hispanic Society website.
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.
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A Silver Filigree Domed Top Casket
in the Museu Nacionale de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.
It would be useful to see the hinges on this casket.
The silver balls on the bun feet are unusual.
11.5 x 11 x 15.7 cms.
The hinge on hasp is very close to that on the Khalili Casket
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17th / 18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.
Sold by Christie's. London.
Lot 97. 18 April 2023.
PROPERTY FROM THE WELBY FAMILY, ORIGINALLY AT HARLAXTON
MANOR AND DENTON MANOR, LINCOLNSHIRE (LOTS 91-97).
With an engraved inscription 'T. D. 19 JUNE 1838. A. E. D.'
10 cm.high;15 cm wide; 8.5
cm. deep.
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The Stockholm National Museum Silver Filigree Casket.
Given the bracket feet I think 18th Century later than those with bun feet..
9.5 x 16 x 8.5 cms.
The small comma shaped twisted wire elements within the rectangular wire framework lead me to think that this piece is perhaps Indian, from Cuttack. Orissa.
The Filigree from Karimnagar has to my eye a more regular appearance.
So far I can find no evidence of filigree being made in Karimnagar before the 1820's.
Swedish National Museum
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The Khalili Casket for comparison.
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17th/ 18th Century Casket formerly with London dealer Michael Backman.
Note the Khalili type hinge details.
Also the filigree bun feet and the arabesque rectangular wire framing as on the Dresden Casket.
There is another very similar casket in the Hermitage collection St Petersburg 13 x 12 x17 cms.
and another with more sophisticated feet in the Fries Museum (below).
length: 16.6cm, depth: 11.6cm, height: 13cm
I am very grateful to Michael Backman for allowing me to use his photographs.
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The Fries Museum Silver Filigree Casket.
Fries Museum Leeuwarden, Netherlands,
Described as a tea chest - maker Hendrik Dew.
I suspect that any mark will be on an inner silver liner, the casket being late 17th early 18th century.
width:
12.0 cm, height: 13.5 cm, length: 17.5
cms
Fries
Museum, Leeuwarden - Collection Province of Fryslân - legacy mr. A. Looxma
Ypeij.
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Sotheby's Casket related to the casket above.
They say Gujarat?
At first glance this could be the same casket as that above but the button on the lid is quite different.
Again these two caskets are almost certainly from the same workshop.
Lot 221, 24 April 2013
no size given.
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The Middelberg, Netherlands, Town Hall Casket.
NB. the form of the hinges which are very close to those on the Khalili Casket/cabinet.
One of two earlier caskets converted into tea caddies by Hendrik Boshart
in the Middelberg Town Hall Collection.
It is not clear but I believe at least one of the three internal tea caddies have marks for silversmith Hendrik Boshart of Middelberg for 1771.
I suspect there are no marks on the filigree.
This needs to be confirmed.
17 cm high, 17 cm wide and 12.5 cm
deep.
The hinges are very similar to those on the Khalili Casket (above) suggesting to me that they both came from the same workshop.
I believe that the casket is 17th/18th century and has been (skillfully) adapted by Boshart.
The caddies, the handle on the top and the lock and the lock are all later additions.
The position of the (later) keyhole on the front is also instructive.
NB. Hinges as in the Khalili cabinet (above).
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The Mallam's Silver Filigree Casket.
Missing the lock hasp.
Mallam's, Cheltenham, UK. Lot 9. Nov 2011 - 7 1/2" across, 5
3/4" high, 4 1/2" deep.
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Pair of Silver filigree Caskets.
With Dutch Dealers Viljoen Roell.
Pair Silver Filigree Caskets
from 2010 Catalogue. of Viljoen and Roell.
W. 17cms. D.11.6cms. H.13cms.
I am very grateful to Zebregs Roell for permission to use their photographs.
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A small Group of Caskets of a distinct type - with double twisted wire filigree panels set back from the main rectangular elements.
The Dullaert Art and Antiques 17th Century Shallow Domed Top Silver Filigree Knottekistje (Wedding Casket).
Included here because of the domed top and several related caskets.
In these caskets the twisted wire infills are set back from the arabesque rectangular framing - unlike those above where the infills are flush with the framing.
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The British Museum Silver Filigree Casket.
I believe closely related to the Dullaerts casket above.
15.2 x 7.7 cms.
Previously with Messrs Spink & Sons Ltd described by them as circa 1665.
Hall Grundy Collection. 1974
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An Octagonal Casket formerly with London Dealer Michael Backman.
I am very grateful to Michael Backman for allowing me to use his photographs.
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Fries Museum Silver Filigree Casket.
The Museum website say Tea Drum maker Jan Buysen, Amsterdam.
I think late 17th / early 18th Century.
I suspect that it has an inner silver liner with the mark of Jan Buysen.
Jan Buysen 1747 - 1813 - working in Amsterdam from 1777.
Width: 10.9 cm , height: 13.5 cm , length: 16.8 cms.
Unfortunately very low resolution image from the Fries Museum website.
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