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Lot 68

A silver-mounted oval snuff box, 19th century

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

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A silver-mounted oval snuff box, 19th century

In Meissen style, of bombé form, each side painted with a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, within an elaborate gilt scrollwork cartouche filled in purple, flanked by a purple bracket and miniature vignette, the cover with a similar cartouche, the inside cover with an similar scene, the base with a landscape scene with a horseman and another figure, the mount with scroll thumbpiece, 6.8cm across, crossed swords mark to interior base in underglaze-blue

Footnotes

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 40;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 11

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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