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Lot 71

A gold-mounted oval snuff box, 19th century

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

Sold for £5,400 inc. premium

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A gold-mounted oval snuff box, 19th century

Of bombé shape, decorated in Meissen style with an elaborate continuous scene of huntsmen on horseback and their hounds chasing a stag, a harlequin appearing from behind the bushes riding his easel and waving a slapstick in the air, the cover showing the huntsmen and the slain deer, the inside of the cover with an elegantly dressed huntress, holding her gloves in one hand, stroking one of her hounds with the other, the base of the box with a scene of the hounds bringing down the stag, 6.5cm wide, crossed swords in underglaze-blue on the interior base of the box

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1676

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 61;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 16

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

A highly comparable box is in Design Museum Denmark (Heine collection), Heine 1937, p.30, cat.no. 22.

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