Small box in gold and silver damascened iron with a domed li - Lot 70

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Small box in gold and silver damascened iron with a domed li - Lot 70
Small box in gold and silver damascened iron with a domed lid, a movable handle and resting on ball feet; body encircled by a ring with a hasp. Front: history of Actéon and hunting scenes; back: the Judgment of Paris and Orpheus charming animals; cover, scenes of rural life with wild boar and hare hunts, woman in the well or man cutting hemp; gables: animated scenes with pig keepers, muleteers, horn blowers in hilly landscapes with river, castles, towers, church, houses and mills surrounded by different animals; underside decorated with foliage scrolls. Spain, workshop of Diego de Çaias (1535-1560), mid-sixteenth century Height: 7.7 cm - Width: 8.5 cm - Depth: 5.9 cm (slight wear) Source: Spitzer Collection, Paris Private Collection, Paris Bibliography: The Spitzer Collection, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Volume I, Macon, Protat Frères, 1891, Iron Section, No. 2564, p. 294, rep. pl. LVIII. Sale Paris, 33, Rue de Villejust 16e, Me Chevallier, 17 April to 16 June 1893, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité Antique, du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, lot 34. Little is known about Diego de Çaias, a Spanish damasciner, whose several works, some signed, are kept in many French and foreign museums. It is assumed that his name would be a deformation of the village of Zaias in old Castile from which he originated and that he carried out his activity in Valladolid and Toledo. His personal talent has been expressed on all kinds of objects, from the most prestigious such as knives (see a hunting knife dated 1544 in the Royal Collection of the Queen of England or a dagger from the Army Museum, inv. Po 1052) to other objects of more everyday use, as evidenced by an escarcelle clasp kept at the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv. 1916.1550). His style is well recognizable with a taste for a charged and invasive ornamentation animated by many characters and animals, mixing architecture and fantasy landscapes sometimes marked by exot
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