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The Green Room, (Grunes Gewolbe) Dresden Silver Filigree Casket for comparison.
Size 17.8 x 20 x 13.8 cms.
The hinges, feet and arabesque work are very similar to those on the Khalili casket.
I tentatively suggest here that they were made in the same atelier.
It is tempting to suggest that they were both made in the workshop of Conraedt Breghtel (16-09 - 75) of the Hague.
This casket is first mentioned in the inventory of Lichtenburg castle 1717, when it was in possession of Anna Sophia (the mother of Augustus the Strong):
“4eckigtes silbernes Kästgen von durchbrochener Arbeit mit einem gewölbten Deckel, worinnen 2 Fächer“.
Info courtesy Dirk Weber Curator at the Green Room (Grunes Gwolbe) Dresden.
I am extremely grateful to Dirk Weber for his very kind assistance with this project.
https://gruenes-gewoelbe.skd.museum/en/
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/17-th-century-silver-filigree-casket-in.html
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A magnificent 17th/ 18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.
Previously with London dealer Michael Backman.
Another casket which has been categorised as Indo Portuguese. My feeling is that this casket is probably Dutch and is related to the Khalili Casket.
NB. the hinges which are almost exactly the same as those on the Khalili Casket above.
It also has very similar filigree bun feet.
This casket belongs to a group of similar caskets (some illustrated below) which I will come to in due course in blog posts specifically dedicated to them.
Hinges as those on the Khalili Casket (above).
Length: 16.6cm, depth: 11.6cm, height: 13cms.
Previously with London dealer Michael Backman.
https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/archived_objects/indo-portuguese-silver-filigree-casket-goa/
I am very grateful to Michael Backman for his encouragement and permission to use his photographs.
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17th/ 18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.
Probably Dutch.
Museu Nacionale de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.
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17th / 18th Century Silver Filigree Casket formerly with Subastas. Barcelona.
Probably Dutch.
NB. Details of the feet, which are similar to those on the Khalili Casket.
Another casket almost certainly from the same workshop as the Khalili Casket .
La Suite, Subastas, Barcelona.
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The Fries Museum Casket.
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden.
Collection of the Province of Fryslan.
I have contacted the Fries Museum and hope to see photographs of the back and hinge detail in due course.
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A 17th/18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.
Formerly with Dutch dealers Zebregs Roell.
W. 19.5 x D. 12.2 x H. 13 cms
https://www.zebregsroell.com/large-indonesian-filigree-casket
A big thank you to Messrs Zebregs Roell of Holland for permission to use the photographs.
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A Pair of Silver Filigree Caskets.
Formerly with Dutch dealers Viljoen and Roell.
Width 17 cms. Depth 11.6 x Height 13 cms.
With Dutch dealers Viljoen and Roell. 2013.
Again I am grateful to Messrs Zebregs Roell for the use of their photographs
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The Lateral Domed Caskets.
I will in due course post separately on this form of domed top casket.
They come with either three or five long lateral domes.
update see -
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/04/some-photographs-of-domed-silver.html
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A Five Domed top Silver filigree Casket.
Sold by Bonhams Auctions.
Another Casket catalogued as from Goa.
This is possibly the earliest example of this type of casket with the lateral domed lid.
Posted here because of the similarities with the Khalili and previous caskets.
11.5 x 15.8 x 10 cm.
The feet probably replaced.
Sold Bonham's. Lot 108, 6 Oct 2015.
see also my post
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/04/some-photographs-of-domed-silver.html
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The Mallam's 17th/18th Century Silver filigree Casket.
19 x 14.5 x 11.5 cms.
Not a great image - but good enough for our purposes.
Casket sold by Mallam's auctioneers of Cheltenham, UK.
Lot 9 November 2011.
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The 17th Century, Hermitage - St Petersburg Writing Box /Desk Set.
With the Crowned Coat of Arms of the Princes of Orange indicating that the previous owner was William Hendrik Prince of Orange (1650 - 1702) (Guillaume Henri, Prince d'Orange), Stadholder of the Netherlands and King of England from 1689.
1672 - 89.
This is another key piece in identifying 17th century silver filigree.
So far no one seems to have questioned its origins and the Hermitage catalogue states Goa (I believe we can safely say not - there is no evidence of any filigree ever being manufactured in Goa information from Hugo Miguel Crespo of Lisbon University) so probably manufactured in Holland.
I am going to throw down the gauntlet and say Dutch (probably Hans Coenraet Breghtel 1609 -1675 of the Hague - various spellings) see the Victoria and Albert Museum Breghtel Clock illustrated below.
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Size 13 x 31 x 27 cms.
It has proved rather difficult to obtain any high resolution photographs of all of the Hermitage silver filigree objects.
Hermitage Amsterdam have been playing hard to get! and I don't hold out much hope with getting a response from the Hermitage, St Petersburg but one can live in hope!
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It is my intention in the future to take each object from the Hermitage collection and illustrated in the catalogue of the Hermitage Amsterdam - Silver Wonders from the East by Maria Menchikova and Jet Pijzel Domisse pub 2006 and to rewrite or add to the descriptions and include photographs of comparable objects in a forthcoming blog post to be published in due course.
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The Green Room, (Grunes Gewolbe) Dresden Silver Filigree Casket for comparison.
Size 17.8 x 20 x 13.8 cms.
The hinges, feet and arabesque work are very similar to those on the Khalili casket.
I tentatively suggest that they were made in the same atelier.
This casket is first mentioned in the inventory of Lichtenburg
castle 1717, when it was in possession of Anna Sophia (the mother of Augustus
the Strong):
“4eckigtes silbernes Kästgen von durchbrochener Arbeit mit
einem gewölbten Deckel, worinnen 2 Fächer“.
Info courtesy Dirk Weber Curator at the Green Room (Grunes Gwolbe) Dresden.
I am extremely grateful to Dirk Weber for his very kind assistance with this project
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The second Metropolitan Museum Silver Filigree Casket.
Another casket labelled as Goan??
NB the filigree Ball feet.
8.6 x 12 x 6.9cms
With original European? sharkskin case.
On loan from The Hispanic Society of America, New York, NY.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/650301
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Silver Filigree Casket again NB silver filigree bun feet.
11.5 x 11 x 15.7 cms.
Museo Nacional de Arte Antiga. Lisbon.
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The next four caskets I suggest are perhaps related to the Khalili Casket.
They are certainly related to each other.
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The Metropolitan Museum Silver Filigree Casket.
Yet another piece with its origin given as Goa.
It should be noted that Hugo Miguel Crespo of Lisbon University assures me that there is no evidence of any filigree being manufactured in Goa.
Height 13 cms x Width 13 cms.
Purchased in 2014.
Previously with dealers Zebregs Roell.
Formerly with dealer Alexis Renard.
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The Met Casket photographed when with Paris dealer Alexis Renard.
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Another related Silver filigree Casket.
NB. Silver Filigree Ball Feet.
Height 16.5, Width 18cms.
Another earlier casket which has later been adapted as tea caddy.
The inner caddy with the mark of London Maker James Perry 1780 - 81.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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H. 10.5 x W. 11.8 x D. 8.7 cms.
with Dutch dealers Zebregs Roell in 2016.
https://www.zebregsroell.com/dutch-colonial-filigree-sarcophagus
Size 12.5 x 10.5 x 13.5 cms.
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12 x 6,5 x 7,5 cm.
The form of the hinge detail here has distinct similarities with the Khalili Casket.
https://www.rikkoert.nl/zilveren-theekistje-011469952?sqr=Filigrain#
Height: 9.5 cm, width: 15 cm, depth: 10.4 cms.
Bonham's London, Lot 349, 20 July 2016.
An 18th century silver filigree casket and two Dutch tea
caddies.
It appears to me that the clasp is a replacement and locating slot for the clasp 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"
Length: 13.5 cm Width: 8.7 cm Height: 8 cms.
Size 13 x16.5 x 12.5 cms
https://www.facebook.com/museodellafiligrana/photos/1546554862319900
Base 7x11 cm; height 6,5 cms.
The hinge attachments and the terminal finials have distinct similarities with the Khalili casket/casket.
At the Museo Civico Della Filigrana Pietro Carlo Bosio, Campoliguri, Italy.
I am unable to provide any further details as yet!
I have contacted the museum and am expecting further photographs and details in due course.
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The Dutch Museums Silver Filigree Casket.
Hinged, overlapping lid. Hinged lip to close the box with a
lock and key (missing). Box and lid are largely worked in star rosette ornament
filigree. Inside is a separate box, formed of silver plates, with a sliding
lid. It contains a silver tea shovel decorated with flower ornaments.
Four silver calibration marks are stamped on the bottom of
the inner box, one with a capital 'R' and one with three crosses as in the
Amsterdam coat of arms.
Further information provided in 1967 by the curator of the
Fries Museum: Meesterteken PVR, active around 1798. Master unknown to Voet.
Amsterdam no. 586. 'R' is 1800.
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A similar casket with the same enamel flower motifs and other enameled ornament in Chinese style was sold Christies Amsterdam, 15-16 December 2008, lot 275. At the time it was catalogued as mid-18th century Chinese export, a description revised in 2014 to West Sumatra, Indonesia, circa 1700. This latter ascription appears on p. 122 of the publication, Asian Art and Dutch Taste, produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague, 5th April-26th October, 2014, authored by Jan Veenendaal.
Veenendaal distinguishes between the technical styles of Indian, Philippine, Chinese and Sumatran filigree, arguing that the west coast of the latter, was known in the 17th and 18th century from inventories and from an 18th century eye-witness report as the most important center for production of gold and silver filigree in the region.
The filigree style on this casket fits the description given by Veenendaal to distinguish Sumatran work from elsewhere as '..composed of curls...generally interspersed with little ovals. The arrangement looks like a tiny plant with two leaves and a flower (see detail) ...sometimes floral motifs were soldered on top of the filigree surfaces and filled with green enamel.
The enamelling was probably done in Batavia since the town had a reputation for it. (Batavia was in nearby Java and capital of the Dutch East India company).
The four distinctive bun-shape pin heads retaining the lock, set on filigree zig-zag 'ladders' is also a feature of filigree caskets ascribed to Sumatra. The silversmiths of Sumatra tailored the style of work to the market they were selling into, whether Chinese, Indian or European.
Although presented as fact these three paragraphs above are subjective - there is, to my knowledge, no evidence of this and therefor need to be treated with caution.
It is possible that the
casket was at one time fitted with tea caddies, such as an example with caddies
marked by Reynier Brandt, Amsterdam, 1754 sold Christies Amsterdam, 27 April
2004 lot 251.
14.6 x 9.1 x 8.9 cm.
8 cm. high x 14 cm. wide x 8.5 cm. deep.
Sold by Christies Amsterdam, Lot 275. 15 December 2008.
Inventory number : TM-1698-169
Inventory number : TM-1698-168.
Breghtel was born in Nuremburg in 1609. By 1640 he had
established himself as a silversmith in The Hague and by 1645 he was supplying
the Statholder's Court. His widow Maria Steenwegge continued to manage the
workshop after Breghtel's death in 1675, with the help of her sons-in-law.
Breghtel's three daughters each married goldsmiths, two were based in The Hague, Adriaen van Hoecke and Otto van Hesselt and one in Berlin (Samuel Blesendorff). Adriaen van Hoecke was still using Breghtel's mark two years after his master's death. He married Johanna Breghtel in 1659 and took over Breghtel's workshop in 1682.
Maximum, base width: 42.2cm
Width: 42.2cm
Depth: 42.2cm
see my post
A 17th/ 18th Century Gold Filigree Casket.
Brodick Castle.
Included here for comparison - my feeling is that the workmanship on this casket is probably Indian, almost certainly Cuttack (Kattack), Orissa - the use of the small comma shaped pieces of wire with a framework of larger rectangular section wire appears on other Indian pieces, made in Cuttack (Kattack), Orissa such as the V and A Tipoo Sultan Casket.(illustrated below).
See my post - https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-attar-casket-of-tipu-sultan.html
No dimensions available as yet.
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Two 18th Century Silver Filigree Indian Caskets with Perfume Bottles.
The Tipoo Sultan Casket - pre 1799.
Looted from the Palace of Tipoo Sultan at Seringapatam by the British in 1799.
Probably Cuttack (Kattack) Orissa.
The Gilt Frames of the Mihrab shaped panels (as the niches in a Mosque or in prayer mats) suggests to me that it was originally created by a Muslim craftsman for a Muslim owner.
13 x 9 x 8.5 cms.
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The Michael Backman 17th /18th Century Casket arguably finer than the British Museum Tipoo Sultan Casket.
These two Caskets are obviously related although the B.M. Tipoo Sultan example lacks its tray.
These two caskets whilst superficially similar to the Dutch examples illustrated above, they bear the distinct features of filigree made in Cuttack, (Kattack), Orissa on the East coast of India.
Basically the filigree work consists of two very fine twisted wires formed into numerous comma shaped elements and set within very fine rectangular section frame - these are in turn set within larger rectangular wire frameworks which form the mihrabs (gilt on the Tipoo Sultan casket) and the main framework of the caskets.
Objects made using similar techniques have been ascribed to Karimnagar - Hyderabad but as yet I can find no evidence of Filigree manufacture in Karimnagar before 1830 (possibly even later) Filigree is still manufactured in Karimnagar today. the key pieces of Karimnagar Silver Filigree are in the Victoria and Albert Museum - presented by Prince Albert.
The designs of the two caskets are very similar .
The Backman Set is Complete with supporting Tray.
Previously with London dealer Michael Backman.
https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/archived_objects/silver-filigree-perfume-set/
Note the supporting skirt on this casket similar to those on the group of caskets illustrated above.
The tray 19.4 x 14.6 cms.
Length of box including the feet: 15cm, length of box not including feet: 13cm, height of box: 9.8cm, depth of box: 10.6cm
https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/object/batavian-silver-filigree-perfume-box-set-tray/
I am very grateful to Michael Backman for allowing me to use his photographs.
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The Tipoo Sultan Silver Gilt Silver Filigree Casket.
Height: Height: 9 centimetre, Length: Length: 12 centimetres, Depth: Depth: 8.50 centimetres.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1904-1006-1-a
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