The Lateral / longitudinal ? Domed Silver Filigree Caskets.
I'm not quite sure how I should describe them.
(post in preparation).
I have previously posted at some length on silver and silver gilt filigree caskets.
This post should be read in conjunction with my previous posts -
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/spectacular-and-large-silver-gilt.html
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I will start this post with two silver filigree caskets which are both very unusual and have quite different detailing to the following caskets.
Both of these caskets are illustrated in the PAB Catalogue Choices -
Hugo Miguel Crespo, Choices, Lisboa, AR-PAB, 2016.
https://www.academia.edu/33608988/Hugo_Miguel_Crespo_Choices_Lisboa_AR_PAB_2016
This document contains the first recent serious research /writing on the subject of 17th and 18th century gold and silver filigree from the Persian Gulf, India and South East Asia.
In it Hugo Miguel Crespo refutes the argument that much gold and filigree was manufactured in Goa - in it he states that there is absolutely no documentary evidence that any filigree was manufactured in Goa
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The first modern study was Silver,Wonders from the East, Filigree of the Tsars, by Maria Menshikova and Jet Pijzel-Domisse, The Hermitage Amsterdam Exhibition Catalogue of over 120 silver filigree objects collected by the Tsars Alexei Mikhailovich and Peter the Great and Catherine the Great - published in2006 by Lund Humphries but this is now out of date and needs seriously revising.
This blog is an attempt to put this situation right.
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Size 14 x 15.5 x 9.5 cms.
https://www.academia.edu/33608988/Hugo_Miguel_Crespo_Choices_Lisboa_AR_PAB_2016
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Unfortunately the resolution of these photographs is a little low.
Hopefully we can rectify this in the future.
https://www.academia.edu/33608988/Hugo_Miguel_Crespo_Choices_Lisboa_AR_PAB_2016
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Silver Filigree Casket at the Museo Pietro Carlo Bosio, Campo Ligure, Italy.
This photograph from the museum website.
Very useful in that it shows the detail of the hinges. These hinges have distinct similarities with those on the Khalili Casket
http://www.museofiligrana.org/it/album/europa
17th / 18th Century Casket Silver Filigree Casket.
Size 17 x 11 x 12.3 cms.
They say Spain late 19th Century.
I suggest Dutch or Batavia, late 17th / early 18th Century.
Image courtesy Museo Civico Della Filigrana Pietro Carlo Bosio. Campo Ligure, Italy.
http://www.museofiligrana.org/it/pietro-carlo-bosio
The same casket:
https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0700092423
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The Hermitage - St Peterburg, Silver Filigree Domed Casket.
H. 13cms. W. 17cms. D. 10cms.
Another casket with similar details to the Khalili Casket.
Low resolution photograph.
Casket with slim columns on the corners.
Transferred from the States Services Cabinet of the Winter Palace in 1789.
Inventory Number E 3213.
For the Khaslili Casket and a long photographic essay on the Khalili Casket and the skirted caskets similar to the Hermitage version, see my previous post -
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/spectacular-and-large-silver-gilt.html
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18th Century? Silver Filigree Three Lateral Domed Casket.
The small comma shaped elements suggest to me that this casket is India - possibly Cuttack (Kattack) Orissa.
17.02 x 9.91 x 9.91 cms.
With Dealers Sao Roque Antiquidades, Lisbon.
https://www.masterart.com/artworks/8714/silver-filigree-casket
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The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Silver filigree three lateral domed casket.
Low resolution photograph.
Casket with slim columns on the corners.
Transferred from the States Services Cabinet of the Winter Palace in 1789.
Inventory Number E 3213.
H. 13cms. W. 17cms. D. 10cms.
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17th/ 18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.
The workmanship feels Indian with the small comma shaped twisted twin wire elements.
It has similarities with the Broddick Domed Gold Filigree Casket.
10.5 x 12.5 x 7.1 cms
This casket was previously with London dealer Amir Mohtashemi.
https://www.amirmohtashemi.com/
Saved to my computer 15 November 2014.
I am very grateful to Amir for allowing me to use his photographs.
The Broddick Castle Casket for Comparison.
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Christie's, London 11 October 2005.
20 December 2007.
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Bonham's. A Late 17th Early 18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.
It would be very useful to see the hinge detail on this casket for comparison with The Grunes Gewolbe and Khalili Collection Caskets.
Bonham's, 6 October 2015.
Size 11.5 x 15.8 x 10 cms
I suspect that the feet are missing from this casket.
This workmanship on this casket should be compared with that in the Green Room Dresden and the Khalili Collection Caskets.
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/17-th-century-silver-filigree-casket-in.html
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Two Silver filigree Five Lateral Domed Caskets in the Dutch Museum Collections
1. Silver Filigree and Enamel.
Probably South East Asia.
Size approx. 9.4 x 14.5 x 9cms.
Inventory Number. TM-229-74.
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.
Info here copied from the website.
7 x 8.6 x 5.4 cms.
Inventory number : TM-229-75
Another Silver Filigree casket from the Dutch Museums Collection.
This piece would be transformed with a gentle clean and polish.
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5 Lateral Domed Silver Filigree Casket.
In the Casa Museu Guerra Junquirra, Porto, Portugal.
Size 16.5 x 24.5 x 13.5 cms
Illustration from A Heranca de Rauluchantim.
The Heritage of Rauluchantim / [org.] Santa Casa da
Misericordia de Lisboa, National Commission for the Commemorations of the
Portuguese Discoveries ; coord. Nuno Vassallo e Silva PUBLICATION: Lisbon :
CNCDP, 1996
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Fijnaut Casket
18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.
with dealers Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut B.V. of Amsterdam.
17 March 2023.
https://www.galleryfijnaut.com/
No details of size as yet.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=812678113759123&set=pcb.812678163759118
The detail on the hinge of the hasp is similar to those on the Khalili Silver Gilt Casket and several other caskets.
I will attempt to put a blog post together in the near future on these related caskets.
I have contacted Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut and hope to receive photographs of the hinges on the back.
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The Rikkoert Silver Filigree Casket Casket.
Included here for comparison with the Fijnaut casket above.
12 x 6,5 x 7,5 cm.
https://www.rikkoert.nl/zilveren-theekistje-011469952
Note the hinges on the back
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Casket of unknown origin.
South East Asia.
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