Complete dance chatelain in German silver with a central round meadal showing the portrait of a woman. Four items attached: an aide memoire, a pencil, a metal cage for scent bottle (missing) and a silver medal (marked) showing the the last meeting of Hector and Andromache (Iliade , libro VI, vv 392-502)
“My dear husband, your warlike spirit
will be your death. You’ve no compassion
for your infant child, for me, your sad wife,
who before long will be your widow.
—-So, Hector, you are now
my father, noble mother, brother, and my protecting husband. So pity me.
Stay here in this tower. Don’t orphan your child
and make me a widow”.
Period
Late 19th century
Italy? 1890
metal
6 cm
COD.
920