Jones, Edward Alfred: A catalogue of the objects in gold & silver and the Limoges enamels in the collection of the Baroness James de Rothschild (London, 1912)

A SMALL BOWL OF AGATE AND SILVER GILT

THE bowl is of agate and is fitted with silver-gilt handles of palms and flowers.
Height, 11 cm.
German, eighteenth century.
Plate LXXII, No. i.

AN OVAL BOX, SILVER
AN oval knob, decorated with acanthus leaves and rosettes in flat scrolls, surmounts
the cover, which is in two sections. The top is decorated with flowers and scrolls in
relief, and the lower part with amorini, foliated scrolls and flowers. The body is
ornamented with four plain scutcheons surmounted by coronets, amorini holding
festoons, and various flowers, all in relief. The decoration on the foot, which has a fluted edge,
consists of flowers and scrolls.
This box is illustrated in Luthmer’s catalogue of the late baron Carl von Rothschild’s collec-
tion, 1885, Vol. II, plate 40.
Height 16 cm.; length 15 cm.
Marks: the mark of Leeuwarden in Holland, the date-letter, K, and the maker’s mark, for
Johannes Lelij ^ (N° 4789 in Rosenberg’s Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, 2nd edition,
1911).
Dutch (Leeuwarden), circa 1700.
Plate LXXII, N° 2.
By the same maker are a small odtagonal teapot, with very similar design and workmanship, and
a quadrangular tea-caddy from the Bernal colle&ion, which are now in the Victoria and Albert
museum.

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Plate LXXII