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Lot 72

A silver-mounted circular snuff box, perhaps Meissen, 19th century

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

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A silver-mounted circular snuff box, perhaps Meissen, 19th century

Painted around the side with a continuous landscape scene depicting elegant figures and buildings in park and river settings, above a band of gilt foliate scrollwork, the cover with a similar scene within a shaped gilt quatrelobe foliate scrollwork cartouche, the inside cover with a scene of elegant figures by a trellis in parkland, the base with an purple and iron-red trellis pattern, the mount chased with scrollwork, 5.6cm diam.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1053

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 73;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 24

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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