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Estimate
GBP (£) 4,000 - 6,000
EUR (€) 4,630 - 6,940
USD ($) 5,360 - 8,040
18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
27 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. (69.5 x 44.5 cm).
An architectural gilt wooden casket with hinged lid; the exterior with billeting, egg-and-dart ornament and gadrooning, flowering vegetal schemes over the whole; the two principal faces each with a central heater shield painted with heraldic devices, flanked by robed standing figures holding a book each within a niche and with a palmette motif above; remains of polychrome to the shields and elsewhere.
PROVENANCE:
English private collection.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11679-199810
FOOTNOTES:
The arms are quartered: or an eagle sable; sable a demi-lion rampant or issuant from a fess; sable a mullet of eight points or; or a lion's head erased sable; the repetition of the colours 'or' gold and 'sable' black may be due to the overall colour-scheme of the casket. The timber shows some old insect flight holes and we are advised that this piece has been recently treated with Permethrin, as a precaution.
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