
Sebastian Kuhn
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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 75
Part of the important and elaborate gift of Meissen porcelain in 1734 from Augustus III to Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden and her husband, Fredrik I, Landgrave of Hessen-Cassel, for which see Lars Ljungström, Sweden, Hesse-Cassel, and Meissen, in Fragile Diplomacy (2007), including a tea, coffee and chocolate service for the queen, an armorial table service for the king, as well as garnitures of vases and two snuff boxes (including the present lot). According to a list dated 1 February 1733, they are described as Two snuffboxes, one for a gentleman and one for a lady, both decorated with "landscapes and coats of arms" (quoted by Ljunström, p. 265).