Small beechwood box covered with pewter plates... - Lot 46 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Small beechwood box covered with pewter plates... - Lot 46 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Small beechwood box covered with pewter plates formerly gilded and placed on leather. Decorated with quatrefoils and fleurons around the edge; lid decorated with rosettes furnished with fleur-de-lys, crowns and feathers; brass lock with a pivoting hasp; palastre engraved with interlacing motifs and the gothic letters I and W surmounted by a crown. England, circa 1480 Height: 7,4 cm - Length: 17 cm - Depth: 10,7 cm (small wear and tear) A leaf on the header of Henry J. Cox, Antiques - Works of Art, 162, Hills Road Cambridge bears the following text: Henry VII Casket/4 Petal Rose of Henry VII/He added a petal when he married enemys daughter/Symbols on casket Crown and Prince of Wales Feathers/Renied Beachwood / Initials on box bear a Crown/Metal of box Lead. (Coffret Henry VII/4 petals of rose of Henry VII/He added a petal when he married his enemy's daughter/Symbols on casket Crown and Prince of Wales Feathers/Renied Beachwood/Initials on box bear a Crown/Metal of box Lead). Provenance: former collection of Henry J. Cox, antique dealer in Cambridge, 1948
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