AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GEM-SET EBONISED WOOD CASKET
BY WILHELM WIDEMANN ROME, DATED 1883
AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GEM-SET EBONISED WOOD CASKET BY WILHELM WIDEMANN ROME, DATED 1883 Oblong and on four boldly cast mermaid feet, the front and back each set with silver panel cast and chased with grotesques and foliage scrolls on matted ground and centring cast female bust in high relief, the side with grotesque and foliage scroll cast panels, the corners each with a silver-gilt panel with engraved foliage, the cover of architectural form, the corners applied with female capped buttresses and with a finial cast as a further female, set with gems, the inside velvet lined and set with a panel engraved 'W. Widemann Roma 1883', signed on an internal plaque , on a conforming ebonised wood plinth 7½ in. (19.5 cm.) wide
AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GEM-SET EBONISED WOOD CASKET
BY WILHELM WIDEMANN ROME, DATED 1883
AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GEM-SET EBONISED WOOD CASKET BY WILHELM WIDEMANN ROME, DATED 1883 Oblong and on four boldly cast mermaid feet, the front and back each set with silver panel cast and chased with grotesques and foliage scrolls on matted ground and centring cast female bust in high relief, the side with grotesque and foliage scroll cast panels, the corners each with a silver-gilt panel with engraved foliage, the cover of architectural form, the corners applied with female capped buttresses and with a finial cast as a further female, set with gems, the inside velvet lined and set with a panel engraved 'W. Widemann Roma 1883', signed on an internal plaque , on a conforming ebonised wood plinth 7½ in. (19.5 cm.) wide
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