Two 18th Century Silver Filigree Mirror Cases in the British Museum

 Two 18th Century Silver Filigree Mirror Cases in the British Museum.

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The BM suggests English?

The Lid and Box Bottom with Birds delineated in flat filigree 

infilled with twisted wires.

If it is a mirror case the mirror is now missing.

Unmarked.

Diam. 7.5 cms.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-4562

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18th Century Silver Filigree Mirror Case.

The Letters A and F outlined in flat wire on the cover.

Unmarked.

Height 9.5 cms. 

Engraved plate appears to reveal hidden references to an engagement between Anne Fane and a member of the Gage family and the date 1656.

The three gauntlets appear in the arms of the Fane family as Earls of Westmorland in the middle of the 17th century, but no marriage between the Gage and Fane families appears to be recorded at the appropriate date in the genealogy of the Fane family, see 'Victoria County History, Northants, vol.1, pp. 83-123. 

Three gauntlets sinister are the arms of another branch of the Fane family - of Fulbeck in Lincolnshire - who became Earls of Westmorland in the later 18th century. The genealogy of this family is also outlined in the VCH for Northants, but again there is no Anne Fane at the relevant date. (Information compiled from correspondence between John Cherry and vendor on object file, J. Rudoe 24.5.2013).

Images and text above from the BM website:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1969-0604-1