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A rare early 18th century Transylvanian rock crystal and enamelled silver-gilt table cabinet unmarked apart from an incuse PL below three stars, possibly an inventory mark image 1
A rare early 18th century Transylvanian rock crystal and enamelled silver-gilt table cabinet unmarked apart from an incuse PL below three stars, possibly an inventory mark image 2
A rare early 18th century Transylvanian rock crystal and enamelled silver-gilt table cabinet unmarked apart from an incuse PL below three stars, possibly an inventory mark image 3
A rare early 18th century Transylvanian rock crystal and enamelled silver-gilt table cabinet unmarked apart from an incuse PL below three stars, possibly an inventory mark image 4
A rare early 18th century Transylvanian rock crystal and enamelled silver-gilt table cabinet unmarked apart from an incuse PL below three stars, possibly an inventory mark image 5
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A rare early 18th century Transylvanian rock crystal and enamelled silver-gilt table cabinet
unmarked apart from an incuse PL below three stars, possibly an inventory mark

Europe - Defining Style
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare early 18th century Transylvanian rock crystal and enamelled silver-gilt table cabinet

unmarked apart from an incuse PL below three stars, possibly an inventory mark
Rectangular with canted corners, the hinged cover applied with a pierced, engraved panel of yellow and red tulips amongst pink and white scrolls, the sides and spreading base applied with similar panels and forming the cover of the main body with larger enamelled tulip and anemone panels within reeded frames and separated by turned rock crystal columns topped with silver gilt urn finials, the conforming base with similar floral panels and drawer to front, raised on eight mask-head feet, height 15.5cm, length 14cm.

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It is suggested that the incuse mark is an inventory or collector's mark as it is unlike the usual Hungarian maker's marks of the period. Positive identification is made from the similarity of the floral enamel panels mounted on Transylvanian belts: the unusual use of the cloisonné-style wires within the larger painted fields of enamel in the flower petals; the flowing pink and white scrolls between the flowers, the matting to the unenamelled foliage within the panels, as well as the reeded frame around each panel. The use of the wired and painted enamel appears to have started much earlier in Hungary, possibly under the influence of the Turkish occupiers and by the mid 17th century enamel is being incorporated into the design of jewellery with gems and wired form applied in high relief.

See the exhibition catalogue, Fodor et al, Baroque Splendor, The Art of the Hungarian Goldsmith, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, New York, August - October 1994, especially cat. no. 145, a belt held at the Magyar Nemzetti Múzeum, Budapest (Inv. no. 1913.22). See also, J. Korba, Hungarian Silver, The Nicolas M Salgo Collection (London 1996), cat. no. 77.

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