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A Meissen gold-mounted oval snuff box, circa 1750 image 1
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Lot 102

A Meissen gold-mounted oval snuff box, circa 1750

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen gold-mounted oval snuff box, circa 1750

Moulded with scrollwork entwined with coloured flowers, enclosing landscape vignettes with elegant figures, the inside cover depicting a pastoral couple attended by a child in a park setting, the interior painted with scattered flower sprays, the wavy gold mounts with scrolling foliage, 8cm across

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Literature:
U. Pietsch/K. Jacobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 220

Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, 19 January-6 April 1997; thereafter
Dresden, Albertinum, 7 May-13 July 1997

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