A Swedish early 18th century late baroque silverbox with lid, mark of Petter Bernegau, Stockholm 1707.
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Oval with gadrooned body. The lid is gadrooned and decorated with rich berainornamentation. Also the lid with marks. Length 12.2 cm, width 8.5 cm, height 4.3 cm. Weight 182 g.
Literature
Ed. Magnus Olausson et al., "Silverskatter från svensk stormaktstid" (Silver Treasures from the Swedish Age of Greatness), 2002, exhibition at Läckö Castle, compare the box from H M King Gustav V:s collection (from 1709), cat no. 144 mentioned and illustrated at p. 152.
Ed. Magnus Olausson et al., "Silver - Makt och prakt i barockens Sverige" (Silver - Power and splendor in baroque Sweden), 2004, exhibitioncatalogue no 633, Nationalmuseum, compare cat no 185-189 mentioned and illustrated at p.190-191.
Ed. Carl Hernmarck et al., Svenskt Silversmide, volume II, compare ill. no 174-175.
More information
At the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, there is a writing set by Petter Bernegau from 1707 in the same style as the current catalogue number. Compare also the three similar boxes that were included in the Läckö exhibition in 2004, by the same master but dated 1709, one of which is included in H M King Gustav V's collection.
At the Hermitage in St. Petersburg (inv. no. E4709 1-32), there is a 32-piece gilded toilet service by Johann Marx Schoap, Augsburg 1695-1700, which almost completely coincides in shape and decoration with Bernegau's from 1709.
At Bukowskis auction no. 524 in 2002, three similar boxes, cat no. 460, by Bernegau from the year 1709, were sold.