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Lot 45

A Saint Cloud gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1740

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

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A Saint Cloud gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1740

The cover and base moulded in high-relief with a shell heightened in coloured enamels in a Kakiemon palette, the sides painted with Oriental flower sprigs, the inside cover painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure standing by a fence, flanked by flowering bushes, the inside with a single flower sprig, 8cm across (slight rubbing to enamels on base)

Footnotes

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 384;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 82;

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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