Evening Bag

1915- 1925

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Large, elegant, vase-shaped silver covered urn on round foot resting on square base that is edged with beading, the main body likewise with two bands of beading around the upper edge and shoulder, with two elongated loop handles that terminate in leafy motifs, the tall, slender cover rises up to a domed tip, with urn-shaped finial, the main body engraved with a coat-of-arms (unidentified).
Figure modeled after the statuette of Vischer on the Sebaldus Tomb in the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Nero (37-68 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name NERO impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Round dark blue jasper medallion with white relief scene of man and women, "Sun and Wind"