"Orange Agate Casket"
Orange agate casket.Orange agate.
Germany.
19th century.
8 x 14 x 8 cm.
Antique casket made out of eight orange agate slabs, all held by a brass mount resting on four spheres in agate also.
In the 19th century, this kind of objets de vertu was often given as a present to upper class young girls. Queen Victoria, then Princess of Kent, was thus given a white agate casket of a similar fashion by her aunts, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel.
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