17th Century Silver Filigree Box with Lions and Double Headed Eagle.

 17th Century Silver Filigree Box with Lion on the Lid.

With Applied Hapsburg Double Headed Eagle.

Crowned rampant lions on the doors.

The lid is hinged.

The plaited silver filigree on this object is most unusual.

The most remarkable and truly eccentric filigree case, the interior with 6 graduated drawers.

Size 21.5 x 15 x 10 cms.

Dutch Museum Inventory No. TM-229-117.

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The only pieces that I have come across so far to equal the eccentricity of this piece  are the pair of "Wild men " Figures in the Herzog Anton Museum, Braunschweig.

Height with bases 25.5cms.

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-silver-filigree-wild-men-wilder-mann.html

I am hoping to receive better photographs course

These figures are currently undergoing conservation..

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Mounted Nautilus Shell in the Kremlin Museums.

Possibly by the same craftsman who made the cabinet and the wild men.

Dimensions - height: 32,0 cm.

Belonged to Tsarevich Alexey Petrovich.

Published - Lords of the Ocean. Treasures of the Portuguese Empire of the 16th-18th centuries.

Museum number ДК-185.

Exhibitions - Peter the Great. Collector, Scholar, Artist 28.11.2019 - 08.03.2020

'Guardians of Time. Conservation at the Moscow Kremlin Museums' 10.07.2019 - 13.10 2019.

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The Rosenborg Castle Furniture.

I have touched on the subject already -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/filigree-furniture-ornament-at.html

The crowned rampant lions with the cypher of Queen Charlotte Amalie appear on the mirror at Rosenborg Castle, but the techniques used on this mirror and its accompanying consul table are very different to those used on the casket.

Hopefully I will be able to obtain better images - I am waiting to hear back from the curators at Rosenborg.

see Silver Furniture, Rosenborg by Mogens Bencard pub. 1992.

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