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Lot 12

A Meissen gold-mounted purple-mosaic-ground oval snuff-box, circa 1750

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

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A Meissen gold-mounted purple-mosaic-ground oval snuff-box, circa 1750

Each side reserved with a coloured rocaille cartouche enclosing a Watteauesque scene of elegant figures in park settings, the cover and base with similar scene, the mosaic ground embellished with gilt flower-heads, the inside cover with a seated gentleman playing the lute to a lady, with two lambs at their feet in a park setting, the gold mounts chased with foliate scrollwork, 6cm across; 4cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1269

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 89;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 25

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

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