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An extremely rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted red-ground circular snuff box circa 1735-40 image 1
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An extremely rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted red-ground circular snuff box
circa 1735-40

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

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An extremely rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted red-ground circular snuff box

circa 1735-40
Painted on each side, the base and cover with a 'contour' chinoiserie scene depicting figures engaged in various amusing pursuits, within a shaped, gilt-edged quatrelobe reserve, the inside cover with a similar scene, the interior gilt, the mount applied with a scroll thumbpiece, 6cm diam.; 4cm high (wear to edge of base)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 12 November 1976, lot 161;
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 69

Literatue:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 9

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1987-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

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