A CONTINENTAL EBONY, EBONISED AND WHITE METAL MOUNTED TABLE CASKET
19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY GERMAN
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Auction: 15 JANUARY 2025 FROM 10:00 GMT
Description
in the baroque style, the moulded hinged top opening to a blue velvet lined interior, the sides with repouseé silver plaques with mythological scenes depicting the Birth of Venus, Triton and Amphritite, Europa and the Bull, and Apollo chasing Daphne, with further mounts of stag and boar's heads, grotesque masks and filigree, raised on ebonised carved claw and ball feet
Dimensions
64cm wide, 46cm high, 45cm deep