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Lot 3

A Meissen gold-mounted snuff box, circa 1735-40

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

Sold for £31,200 inc. premium

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A Meissen gold-mounted snuff box, circa 1735-40

Decorated with three miniature chinoiserie scenes at the front, each within a gilt scrollwork and Böttger lustre cartouche, the sides and back with similar, wider cartouches, the cover with chinoiserie figures and flowering branches on a gilt scrollwork pedestal enclosing Böttger lustre, trellis panels and an oval purple monochrome landscape vignette, the base with a large chinoiserie vignette within a moulded border with a gilt line inside and a gilt border outside, the inside cover with a scene of a man embracing a lady seated at a dressing table within a gilt frame, the box interior gilt, 7.5cm wide, (small restored chip to rear left corner of outside of cover)

Footnotes

Literature:
Joseph 1977, ills. 6-8;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 8

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, c. 1977-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

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