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Lot 23

A Meissen gilt-metal-mounted shell-shaped snuff box, circa 1750

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

Sold for £8,400 inc. premium

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A Meissen gilt-metal-mounted shell-shaped snuff box, circa 1750

Probably modelled by Johann Gottlieb Ehder, the inside cover painted with a Watteauesque scene depicting Pierrot with a lute and two other figures, the interior gilt, the mounts chased with scrollwork, 8.5cm wide

Footnotes

Provenance:
Siegfried Salz Collection, Berlin; sold by Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, 26-27 March 1929, lot 154

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 185;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 50;
Jansen (ed.) 2001, no. 58

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten, 14 July-14 October 2001;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

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