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Lot 59

A gold-mounted oval snuff box, possibly Tournai, circa 1770-80

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

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A gold-mounted oval snuff box, possibly Tournai, circa 1770-80

Finely painted with polychrome scenes in 17th-century Dutch style within borders of puce scrollwork, the side with two large and two small tavern scenes, the base with a scene of fisherman by a shore, the cover depicting an alchemist's workshop and the inside cover a kitchen scene, the mounts with 'eagle's head' (twice) guarantee mark for Paris after 1838, 8.1cm wide

Footnotes

Provenance:
J.H. Fitzhenry Collection, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 13-16 December 1909, lot 353 (as Sèvres);
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 341

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 525;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 105;

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1980-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

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