Octagonal tea box

Octagonal tea box
Hammered and repoussé silver and lapis lazuli inlays
Dimensions : 
15 x 10,8 x 10,8 cm / 5.91 inch

Description of the artwork

“On a wide molded base, the octagonal body of this tea caddy, with its strong shoulder highlighted with sodalite, tapers to a narrower neck, edged with sodalite and closed by a high, narrow domed lid, similarly cloisonné, with four arched sodalite compartments.” Jacques Santrot

Origin

Claude Bernard Gallery
Private collection, Belgium

Available artworks

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