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Lot 47

A Saint Cloud silver-mounted snuff box, circa 1745

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

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A Saint Cloud silver-mounted snuff box, circa 1745

Painted with landscape vignettes with chinoiserie figures and flowering plants and insects, the inside similarly decorated, the silver mounts with the discharge marks for Antoine Leschaudel, Paris, 1744-50 and Paris year initial 'H; for 1748-49, 7cm wide (one corner of cover restored)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1310

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 394;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 84;

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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