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Lot 61

A Loosdrecht gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1775-80

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

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A Loosdrecht gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1775-80

Of rectangular shape with domed cover, decorated with moulded scrollwork panels picked out in pale polychrome colours enclosing galant figures in elaborate architectural lanscapes on all six sides, each landscape with a black shadow-line setting off the central landscape against its cartouche, the interior of the cover with a landscape scene of two ladies and a gentleman, pointing at a faraway castle, a rustic urn behind them, the sky with large clouds in blue and salmon pink and grey, set in a gilt metal mount, 9.3cm wide,

Footnotes

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no.536;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no.441;

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

The shape of this box corresponds with another Loosdrecht box in a private collection, and the exact moulds for this box were found during excavations surrounding the Loosdrecht factory, as published by Stichting Loosdrechts Porselein (SLOP) and De Historische Kring Loosdrecht in 2007, plate 84, cat.no. 168 (Nieuwenhuis/Van der Meulen et al. 2007). These flat biscuit rings with a continuous indentation to fit the edge of box and cover would allow the box to remain separated from its cover in the firing process, allowing both parts to fit seamlessly after firing, without sticking together.

Other marked Loosdrecht boxes of the same width but lower and without moulding are illustrated in Den Blaauwen/Zappey 1988, cat. nos. 211-214. These are again illustrated by Trumpie 2007, p. 150, cat. nos. 1-3.

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