European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property from an Important Collection of Hispanic American Art
A Spanish Colonial Walnut, Rosewood, Mother-of-Pearl and Tortoiseshell Veneer Inlaid Enconchado Casket, 18th Century
Lot Closed
April 12, 02:04 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Collection of Hispanic American Art
A Spanish Colonial Walnut, Rosewood, Mother-of-Pearl and Tortoiseshell Veneer Inlaid Enconchado Casket, 18th Century
overall inlaid with scrolling foliate flowering branches and flanked by animals reserved on a tortoiseshell lined ground, the hinged lid applied with later hasp lock opening to reveal a crossed banded parquetry interior set with small rectangular mirror flanked by lozenges incorporating flowering twigs and with small lidded compartment at upper left side.
height 9 3/4 in.; width 20 in.; depth 2 in.
24.8 cm.; 50.8 cm.; 30.5 cm.
The type of scrolling foliage and floral tortoiseshell marquetry typical of Spanish Colonial Furniture, illustrated by a 17th Century shell-encrusted so-called mueble enconchado with related marquetry, was offered as a wedding gift to the granddaughter of one of the Viceroys of Peru, sold Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1992, lot 79. A comparable Spanish Colonial Tortoiseshell Domed Casket, formerly in the collection of Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), was with Finch & Co., London. Another Spanish Colonial casket-on-stand was offered at Christie's London, 6 December 2007, lot 396, and a further comparable example sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 November, 2001 lot 61.