A German turned ivory double box and cover 17th century, Nuremberg

the box of hexalobe section and with basket-weave design upon three gadrooned bun feet, a tall narrow box of similar design also upon three gadrooned bun feet and with a central support affixed to the lid, the lobed lid of the upper box rising to a nest of basket-weave openwork containing a tall footed vase decorated en suite, with a spray of six variously-carved flowers surrounding a central large trumpet-form flower from which emerge three graduated smaller flowers.

Sotheby's London, December 10, 1992, lot 244

Please note the bold heading for this lot should read "A German turned ivory double box and cover, 18th century, Nuremberg." Two small holes in floor of lower box. Central section with minor separating above one foot. Top section with age crack to body of urn. Flower stems removable, secured with wax. Scattered losses to flower petals. Minor surface abrasions.
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A box of very similar design is illustrated in Charles Plumier's L'Art de Tourneur, first published in 1701 (see fig. 1, Plumier 1749, plate LXIII, no. 64), and a design showing an almost identical tiered floral spray can be seen in the same volume (op. cit., plate LXV, no. 66).  Other comparable double boxes were in the cabinet of the celebrated French turner and collector Nicolas Grollier Compte de Servière (1593-1686), who amassed an extensive group of turned objects, and are illustrated in the 1719 publication of copper engravings of his inventory (see Maurice 1985, nos. 115 and 117).