Pair of 17th Century Gold Filigree Lidded Vases at Burghley and another pair in the Hermitage

 

Pair of 17th Century Gold Filigree Lidded Vases at Burghley.

10 cms tall x 6.5cms diam.

https://collections.burghley.co.uk/collection/a-pair-of-gold-filigree-baluster-vases-and-covers-late-17th-century/

There is a 1690 Schedule which itemised an immense bequest from the Countess of Devonshire to her daughter Anne, wife of John, 5th Earl of Exeter, records: “gold things…..Two Gold Jarrs philligrin with Covers sett round the Necks with Turquoise and Diamonds.”

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Another pair of Silver Filigree Lidded Vases in The Hermitage, St Petersburg.

They say Goa - I think more likely European.

Height 21 cms.

Transferred from the States Services Cabinet to the Hermitage in 1789.

Hopefully I will find better quality images in due course.