5 Jul 2011
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
The Helmut Joseph Collection of Important Snuff Boxes
Back to auction 19483
The Helmut Joseph Collection of Important Snuff Boxes
Back to auction 19483
A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted sea-green-ground oval snuff box
circa 1730
The front, back and cover with a chinoiserie scene depicting figures by an estuary or harbour, within a gilt-edged quatrelobe reserve, the base with chrysantheums against a ground of iron-red leaves, the burnished gilt interior with a quatrelobe chinoiserie scene reserved inside the cover, 7.5cm wide, (minor losses)
The front, back and cover with a chinoiserie scene depicting figures by an estuary or harbour, within a gilt-edged quatrelobe reserve, the base with chrysantheums against a ground of iron-red leaves, the burnished gilt interior with a quatrelobe chinoiserie scene reserved inside the cover, 7.5cm wide, (minor losses)
Sold for
£21,600
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 27 June 1961, lot ??;
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1268
Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 24;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 6
Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010
A similar Meissen snuff-box is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Inv. no. 2333-1855).
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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