Antique Dutch Repousse Sterling Silver Heart Shaped Trinket Box Tea Caddy 1890 Decorative Arts the Peloponnese

the Peloponnese

gift to Yale University Art Gallery

Nikolay Strulev

it is thanks to the multiplication of images that it gains in popularity

Antique Dutch Repousse Sterling Silver Heart Shaped Trinket Box Tea Caddy 1890 Decorative Arts the PeloponneseA fine quality antique Dutch silver heart shaped repousse work trinket box or tea caddy, by Rinze Jans Spaanstra, 1843 1896. The heart shaped box circa 1880 and having a hinged lid with a pastoral scene of a farmer planting crops and a lady with a basket of produce. The sides of the box decorated with a maritime scene of sailors trading goods, to the other side is an architectural scene with a castle and church to the background and a horse and two