Silver 800 mark on repousee melon box

I found this box and was thinking it was silverplate from India until I looked closer. It is impressed AS 800 on the inside so I've been looking at marks. It is a bit hard to search "AS" so I was hoping someone might recognize it. Forgive the bad photos.

This measures 5½" diameter, about 5½" to the top of the rose finial and weighs 305 g. The interior is gilt (?) washed. I polished it up a bit as it was pretty grubby.

I did find this auctions for a similar though smaller one from a few years ago, sold for $225 but a different mark and not much info.

http://www.eliteauction.com/catalogues/110213/view.php?id=181

Thanks for help!

 

Huh, can't see a way to correct the spelling error in the title.....so.....repousse!

 

Hi SIS! My guess would be Yogya - Indonesia.

An article with a similar box (first link).

Marks (second link).

http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/asian-art-and-dutch-taste

http://www.925-1000.com/a_yogya.html

 

The similar box

http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/asian-art-and-dutch-taste

 

Well, you'll have to hit the yellow arrow yourself. hahaha

 

I think you've probably got it right. The one on the yellow arrow page is similar but looks nicer than mine (but how much can you expect for $1.74?)

 

Good pictures but it looks as if there is a lot of old silver polish residue in the engraving. A soft toothbrush may help with that.

 

Sweet piece. Some of the Yogya silversmiths have been identified, but the majority remain unknown, as with 'AS'. The auction house referenced apparently needs a bit more expertise in silver, the mark shown wouldn't have been on silver in the 18th century, nor most of the 19th...

~Cheryl

 

It didn't seem to me that the auction house knew much but it was the closest look-wise that I found. And it could use a bit more help in the clean up department and a soft brush will probably help the look. Thanks for the help, all the searches I was doing seem to treat "AS" as a word so I was going in circles! (You never know what you're going to find at a thrift.)