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A Swedish Rococo 21 carat gold box, mark of Frantz Bergs (active 1725-1777).

Estimate
100 000 - 150 000 SEK
8 790 - 13 200 EUR
9 330 - 14 000 USD
Hammer price
115 000 SEK
Purchasing info
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Lisa Gartz
Stockholm
Lisa Gartz
Head Specialist Silver
+46 (0)709 17 99 93
A Swedish Rococo 21 carat gold box, mark of Frantz Bergs (active 1725-1777).

21K, cartouche shape, richly decorated. Cover with a figure scene framed with rocailles and volutes. Sides decorated with rocailles and foliage, base with classical architecture and putti with dog and rocailles. Miniature painting under glass to the interior of the lid depicting antique sacrificial scene. Length 6.2, height 2.3 cm. Total weight 82 grams.

Provenance

Bukowskis International Spring auction 2009, aution no 552, catalogue no 584.
Thereafter Swedish private collection.

Literature

Ed. Hernmarck and others, "Svenskt Silversmide", volume II, compare box in the collection of the Swedish Nationalmuseum (NM68/1940), plate 675-677.