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Lot 29

A Fürstenberg gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1770-75

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

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A Fürstenberg gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1770-75

Of lobed, circular form moulded with radiating waves on the base and cover, the side painted with a gilt-edged blue band entwined with roses, the cover with a similar band enclosing a rose in the centre within gilt-edged pink and blue bands, the base similarly decorated with a gilt-edged blue band around the edge, the inside cover, probably painted by Georg Heinrich Holtzmann, with a scene depicting a shepherd and shepherdess seated by an urn, wavy gilt-metal mounts probably by Johann Hermann Goedecke, 7.6cm diam.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dr. Adolf List Collection, Magdeburg, sold by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 28-30 March 1939, lot 487

Literature:
Ducret 1965, I, p. 56, col. pl. 8, and II, pp. 248-9, ill. 301;
Schnorr von Carolsfeld / Köllmann 1974, I, pp. 296-7, col. pl. 26;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 257;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 61

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

The seated cavalier in the scene on the inside cover is based on an engraving by Johann Esaias Nilson (Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, p. 118). Siegfried Ducret (see above, Literature) attributed the painting on the inside of the cover to Georg Heinrich Holtzmann, and considered the mount to be by J.H. Goedecke. This was the only snuff box, in his opinion, that could be attributed with certainty to Fürstenberg.

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