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A CONTINENTAL SILVER, BLOODSTONE,
LAPIS AND CAMEO-MOUNTED CASKET
PROBABLY ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY
Rectangular with silver borders, the sides with bloodstone
panels mounted with cameos of portrait busts and spaced
by lapis bands, the silver finial formed as a merman
embracing a mermaid above a shield form cartouche
engraved BC, all on four lapis ball feet, the silver apparently
unmarked
11æ in. (29.8 cm.) long
$4,000-6,000
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PROVENANCE:
Collection of the late Baron Gustave de Rothschild.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1986, lot
197.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

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A PAIR OF ENGLISH GILT-METAL
MOUNTED BLUE JOHN AND FLUORSPAR
OBELISKS
19TH/20TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY INCORPORATING
EARLIER ELEMENTS
Each obelisk raised on tortoise-form supports
17æ in. (45 cm.) high (2)
$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 October
1982, lot 416.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

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