A CONTINENTAL SILVER, BLOODSTONE, LAPIS AND CAMEO-MOUNTED CASKET
PROBABLY ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING 18TH/19TH CENTURY CAMEOS
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
11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm.) long
A CONTINENTAL SILVER, BLOODSTONE, LAPIS AND CAMEO-MOUNTED CASKET
PROBABLY ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING 18TH/19TH CENTURY CAMEOS
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
11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm.) long
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