An Italian Pietra-Dura and Ebony Casket

Of cassolette form, the shaped upper section applied with flowers and small masks, one of which opens a hidden drawer, and various roundels and diamonds inlaid with amethyst, lapis lazuli, and other stones and agates, above a rectangular base with scrolling corbels, flanking a further mask and hidden drawer, the sides with porphyry and lapis lazuli panels, on ivory feet, the applied flowers probably later, with a Baronet's wax seal to the underside

Estimate:£2,000

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