A JAMES I SILVER-MOUNTED SHELL CASTING BOTTLE UNMARKED, CIRCA 1600 On a plain spreading foot with threaded border, the ovoid body formed from two cut panels of cowrie shell held by four vertical straps, two applied with scrolling handles cast with bearded masks, the detachable pierced cover with baluster finial 4 in. (10.1 cm.) high Provenance Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 March 1977, lot 128. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1992, lot 33. Charles Lane Poor III (1919-2005), of Washington, D.C. The Collection of the late Charles L. Poor; Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2005, lot 139.
A JAMES I SILVER-MOUNTED SHELL CASTING BOTTLE UNMARKED, CIRCA 1600 On a plain spreading foot with threaded border, the ovoid body formed from two cut panels of cowrie shell held by four vertical straps, two applied with scrolling handles cast with bearded masks, the detachable pierced cover with baluster finial 4 in. (10.1 cm.) high Provenance Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 March 1977, lot 128. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1992, lot 33. Charles Lane Poor III (1919-2005), of Washington, D.C. The Collection of the late Charles L. Poor; Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2005, lot 139.
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