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Lot 28
A Fürstenberg gilt-metal-mounted portrait snuff box, circa 1770
5 July 2011, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,200 inc. premium
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A Fürstenberg gilt-metal-mounted portrait snuff box, circa 1770
The sides painted with four purple monochrome landscape vignettes, the base with a larger vignette within a gilt trellis border, the cover with a crowned cartouche enclosing the entwined initials 'MS', the inside cover, probably painted by Johann Andreas Oest, with a half-portrait of Marie Sophie Wilhelmine von Württemberg-Oels, seated on a chair with a crown, a cat on her lap, wearing the Order of Württemberg-Oels, wavy gilt-metal mounts, 8cm across,
Footnotes
Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1633
Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 254;
Beacamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 60
Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010
Marie-Sophie Wilhelmine von Württemberg-Oels (1721-93), born Countess of Solms-Laubach, married in 1741 Karl Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels and Bernstadt (1716-92).
