Silver Filigree Casket. Bonhams and another similar in a Dutch Museum.

 

A Silver Filigree Casket.

and another very similar example in the Dutch Museum for Comparison.

Bonham's Auctions, Lot 90 - 14 November 2023.

16 x 11.3 x 8.1 cms.

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/28827/lot/90/an-indo-portuguese-silver-filigree-casket-probably-goa-17th-century/

We now know that an attribution to Goa is highly unlikely

Hugo Miguel Crespo of Lisbon University assures me that there is absolutely no evidence of any filigree manufacture in Goa.

I can only discover one related casket which is in the Dutch Museums Collection.

Inventory No. TM-229-78.

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/76314

size 5.5 x 11 x 7.8 cms.

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Photograph below prior to 1930.

Top shelf on the left at the Colonial Institute Amsterdam.