A Dutch silver repousé box, maker's mark GS, standard .833, 1933
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A Dutch silver repousé box, maker's mark GS, standard .833, 1933
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ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
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Starting at ZAR 5 500
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Johannesburg
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A Dutch silver repousé box, maker's mark GS, standard .833, 1933
of rectangular form, the domed cover with a figural village scene, the sides similarly decorated with scrolling foliage and flowers, on zoomorphic feet, accompanied by an 800 standard silver souvenir spoon with the arms of Philippsburg, Germany, 240g
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height: 5cm; width: 13,5cm; depth: 8,2cm
Notes
The box's cover draws on a long tradition in Dutch decorative art, its cast peasant and village imagery recalling the tavern and farmyard scenes made famous by genre painters such as Adriaen van Ostade in the seventeenth century. Silversmiths of later generations often returned to these subjects, translating a painterly vocabulary of rustic, everyday life into low relief. Dated 1933, this box shows that appetite for nostalgic, homegrown imagery persisting well into the twentieth century, sitting alongside the more restrained, cosmopolitan silver being produced in the same period.
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