An Austrian silver, enamel, and ivory casket, circa 1890 painted in Limoges style with Venus in a chariot drawn by doves, Cupid in attendance, surrounded by the signs of the Zodiac in gold on black ground, the sides with plaques of Leda and the Swan and Hercules and Omphale, the font and back set with carved ivory panels of figures in niches surrounded by foliate, Renaissance-style pilasters at the angles marked inside 800 and with Austrian standard mark length 8 1/2 in. 21.5cm
An Austrian silver, enamel, and ivory casket, circa 1890 painted in Limoges style with Venus in a chariot drawn by doves, Cupid in attendance, surrounded by the signs of the Zodiac in gold on black ground, the sides with plaques of Leda and the Swan and Hercules and Omphale, the font and back set with carved ivory panels of figures in niches surrounded by foliate, Renaissance-style pilasters at the angles marked inside 800 and with Austrian standard mark length 8 1/2 in. 21.5cm
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