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Antique Victorian Silver Plate Mechanical Jewelry Box Casket Trinket…

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Antique Art Nouveau Metal Jewelry Box - Jewelry Casket Egyptian Revival Gothic…

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CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN SEVRES-STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SCALLOPED OVULAR JEWELRY CASKET, painted with a blue ground, surrounding ovular cartouches containing floral sprays, with extensive gilt flourishes of scrolls and foliate designs, the top decorated with a serpenting gilt ribbon in a band below a large self-shaped cartouche painted with ladies au plein air being read a letter by a page, with others wooing while listening to music, within a wooded landscape, unmarked. Late 19th/early 20th century.

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Although the Wiener Werkstätte, founded in 1903, is perhaps best known for the strict and vigorous geometry of its earliest designs, a playful, ornamental spirit characterizes the work produced there after the start of World War I. Peche, who worked as a designer at the Wiener Werkstätte between 1915 and 1923 (becoming a co-director in 1917), was a driving force behind the development of a more exuberant and decorative aesthetic, derived in part from Baroque and Rococo influences and in part from folk art, which was typical of objects it produced in the 1920s.This jewel casket is a tour de force of artistic showmanship masquerading under a functional designation; indeed, the coffer would outshine any jewel it might contain. The domed box itself (raised on four bulb feet, each of which opens to reveal additional storage cavities) is dominated by the extravagant handle in the form of a flower-bedecked deer standing among grapevines.