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A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted sea-green-ground oval snuff box circa 1730 image 1
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A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted sea-green-ground oval snuff box
circa 1730

5 July 2011, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £21,600 inc. premium

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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)

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).

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