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Lot 42

A Saint Cloud silver-mounted snuff box, circa 1730

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

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A Saint Cloud silver-mounted snuff box, circa 1730

Painted with landscape vignettes with chinoiserie figures and pagodas among extensive flowering plants, the inside of the cover with similar scenes, the base with an iron-red vignette of plants issuing from rockwork, the silver mounts with wavy thumbpiece and clasp, discharge mark of Jacques Cottin, Paris, 1727-32, 5.1cm wide, (some wear to base)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1609

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 369;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 79;


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

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