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A gilt-metal mounted snuff box with a portrait of the Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel, 19th century image 1
A gilt-metal mounted snuff box with a portrait of the Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel, 19th century image 2
A gilt-metal mounted snuff box with a portrait of the Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel, 19th century image 3
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A gilt-metal mounted snuff box with a portrait of the Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel, 19th century image 5
A gilt-metal mounted snuff box with a portrait of the Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel, 19th century image 6
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A gilt-metal mounted snuff box with a portrait of the Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel, 19th century

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

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A gilt-metal mounted snuff box with a portrait of the Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel, 19th century

Decorated with bataille scenes on the cover surrounded by a dense gilt rim enclosing flowers and insects, the base with a group of resting soldiers in 18th century costume, the inside of the cover with an elaborate portrait of Landgraf Friedrich II. of Hessen-Kassel, the mounts marked with 'recumbent lion', 'three-towered gateway' and 'H.A' in rectangles, possibly for Hanau, circa 1900, 8.4cm wide,

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Zürich, 22 May 1981, lot 98

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 346;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 74

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1981-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

The portrait of the Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Cassel is based upon an engraving by W.C. Mayr (illustrated by Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, p. 143) of the portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, now in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel.

Friedrich II (1720-85), who was educated in Geneva and Lausanne, married firstly, Marie, a daughter of King George II of England, and in 1773, Princess Philippine of Prussia. In 1749 he secretly converted to Catholicism. He supported Prussia in the Seven Years War and in 1760 was made General Field Marshall. After the war, he encouraged industry, manufacturing and the arts in Hessen, founding the Academy of the Arts in 1777 and the first public museum in Europe, the Fredericianum, in 1779.

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