Filigree in Museeums Landschaft Hessen Kassell. Part 2.

 Silver Filigree in the Museeums Landschaft Hessen Kassell. Part 2.

A Silver and Silver Gilt Filigree Casket.

Mounted with Semi Precious Stones

17th Century.

10.7 x 16.8 x 12.5 cm

Inventory No.:   KP B II.45

https://datenbank.museum-kassel.de/47224/0/0/0/s2/4/100/objekt.html

see my previous post

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/02/silver-filigree-casket-museum-von.html

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Literature:

Schütte, Rudolf-Alexander: The silver chamber of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel. Inventory catalog of goldsmith work from the 16th to the 18th. Century in the State Museums Kassel. Kassel / Wolfratshausen 2003, p. 364-365, cat.No. 81.

Bott, Gerhard: Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau ( 1623 - 1685 ). The "King of the Land of Glara" and his art treasures. Hanau 2015, p. 154-155, cat.No. 33.

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18th Century? Silver Filigree Casket.

Sotheby's Lot 218, 24 April 2013.

No size given.

The fine net like filigree on the background here is unlike the technique used on the other caskets illustrated here, and is close to Chinese techniques.

Is this perhaps a copy from China or South East Asia?

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/arts-of-the-islamic-world-l13220/lot.218.html?locale=en

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The Museum von Hessen Kassel Casket photographed prior to 1886.

Photograph here of the from the MAK archives, Vienna.

19th Century Photograph.

Silver Filigree Casket, Besamim Tower and Zarf? at the Museum von Hessen Kassel.

Publisher: Lübek and Th. Kay Nöhring & Wellerhaus , Kassel , before 1886.

image from:

https://sammlung.mak.at/sammlung_online?id=collect-275932

Note the distinct similarities with the Sotheby's jewelled casket below.

Sotheby's Lot 218, 24 April 2013.

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