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LOT 1455
Post Medieval Painted Miniature Alabaster Casket
CIRCA 17TH CENTURY A.D.
3 1/4 in. (336 grams, 83 mm wide).
With D-section lid and four stub feet, painted panels of rosettes and foliage in red and green with liquide gold detailing; upper edge of base with legend 'SIrVOAMI / SENOr[A] DOrA NICOLA / SADERO[B]AS'.
Provenance
From a Blackheath, London, UK, deceased estate.
Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
The text reads in part as a personal name 'Senora Dora Nicola ... de Robas', Spanish or Catalan.
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