An Unusual c.1895 Serpentine & Bronze Mounted Jar & Cover sub-Antiques The lower panel is a

The lower panel is a later addition it seems

who owned it or how it betrayed its owner

but it could just as easily be worn around the neck on a chain

scrolling foliage and pineapples opening to reveal a portioned interior with lift out lid with ivory turned knob and later housed in a Victorian period glass dome on an ebonised stand

An Unusual c.1895 Serpentine & Bronze Mounted Jar & Cover sub-Antiques The lower panel is aOrigin: Probably Italian Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 1900 Base Diameter: 5. 75 inches Height: 8 inches The octagonal serpentine jar and cover, applied with four bronze lizards to the facetted sides and a crab to the rimmed cover, surviving from the zeniths of nineteenth century Italy. The condition of the jar is relatively good. There are two chips to the cover and two chips to the jar itself though they arent