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LOT 0366
Northern Italian Gilt Wooden Casket
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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LOT 0366
Northern Italian Gilt Wooden Casket
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000€4,640 - 6,960 (for guidance only)$5,400 - 8,100 (for guidance only)
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