Antique Georgian Silver Filigree Bougie Box Chamberstick Candlestick 1780c Redo Eastern Tibet

Eastern Tibet

The jar of baluster-shaped form with a shallow neck and finely decorated with Imperial figures within a landscape setting

Each vase with gilded handles and gilded embossed dragons

to the center is a large hand cut steel lock and hasp

including a pair of crowned heads supporting the top

Antique Georgian Silver Filigree Bougie Box Chamberstick Candlestick 1780c Redo Eastern TibetAn rare Georgian sterling silver filigree bougie box, chamberstick, circa 1780. A "bougie box" was a cylindrical container holding a coiled wax taper, mostly used for light often as a nighttime chamberstick. This very elegant silver bougie box is of cylindrical shape and is finely constructed from silver filigree. The box with its original lid and a hinged handle, the original candle snuffer is also present and attaches to the box with a hook. There