Photograph of an Indian Casket MAK.

 A Photograph of an Indian Casket.

MAK. Archives.

Prior to 1874.

Almost certainly Cuttack, Orissa.

From Survey of India, India, before 1874.

https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collection_online?id=collect-198636

Inventory number: KI 2594-1

Acquisition: donation (1874).

Plate mark (rechts oben): (VIENNA) From C. / INDIA. / Group 12 Subdivision 2 / No. 71

Text on object: [Untersatzkarton, mittig unten, aufgeklebt]: 

BETEL BOX. / IN SILVER FILAGREE. / PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, CALCUTTA. 

[gedruckt] [Untersatzkarton, rechts unten]: Betel-Kästchen m. Silberfiligran- / schmuck, indisch. [handschriftlich]

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The casket below is almost certainly from the same workshop as the casket above.

Cambi Salerooms Milan - Lot 550 -28 April 2015.

Silver Filigree Casket, Cuttack, Orissa.

18 x 9 cms.

https://www.cambiaste.com/uk/auction-0226-2/a-small-silver-filigree-box-with-handle-portug-1-128757

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The casket below is almost certainly from the same workshop as the two caskets above.

Silver Gilt Filigree Casket

Suggested as 18th century - 1750 but I suspect a century later.

Cuttack, Orissa.

length: 18.4cm, width: 12.2cm, height (including handle) 15cm,

https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/archived_objects/mughal-silver-filigree-box-india/

I am very grateful to Mochael Backman for permissin to use his material.

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Another Silver Filigree Casket.

probably from the same workshop of the caskets Illustrated above.

with Lisbon dealers J Baptista.

https://josebaptista.com/en/

Described on the website as Indo-Portuguese, 18th / 19th century

marked by Lisbon’s Assay Office(INCM): “Old Man’s Head with Laurel”

Dim.: 18 x 9 cm

https://josebaptista.com/en/loja/collection/silver/16th-18th-century/an-indo-portuguese-silver-filigree-casket/ 

Ref.P241

Indo-Portuguese, 18th / 19th century

Remarked by Lisbon’s Assay Office(INCM): “Old Man’s Head with Laurel”

Weight: 500 g. Dim.: 18 x 9 cm

https://josebaptista.com/en/loja/collection/silver/16th-18th-century/an-indo-portuguese-silver-filigree-casket/ 

Ref.P241

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19th Century Silver Filigree Casket.

Previously with Joseph Cohen, London.

https://www.josephcohenantiques.com/

No size given.

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Another Silver Filigree Casket - Photograph from an unknown source.

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A Remarkable and Mysterious and Large Silver Filigree Casket with applied Silver Gilt Elements.

This casket is included here because of the shapes of the handles suggest that it is related in some way with the caskets above - but the techniques used here are quite different. Amir Mohtashemi suggests the Phillipines.

The lock plate has a stylised double eagle head.

The round feet feature is very unusual.

21 x 25 x 16 cm.

with London Dealer Amir Mohtashemi.

https://www.amirmohtashemi.com/artworkdetail/853305/17921/silver-filigree-casket

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17th/ 18th Century Silver Filigree Casket.

Silver Filigree Casket again included here because of the shape of the handles.

With dealers San Roque, Lisbon.

17.02 x 9.91 x 9.91 cm.

https://www.masterart.com/artworks/8714/silver-filigree-casket

Described on the website as Goa - 1600 - 1750.

We now know that any attribution to Goa is very unlikely.