Estimated at just £40-60, this ebonised wood and alabaster table casket sold to a bidder using thesaleroom.com for £1600 at Peter Francis (20% buyer’s premium) of Carmarthen on August 28.

Extracted from Antiques Trade Gazette | ATG Reporter

The 12in (30cm) box of architectural form with split pillars and foliate carved arcaded decoration was probably 17th century in date and typical of boxes made in the alabaster carving workshops of Malines (Mechelen) in northern Belgium.