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Lot 127

A gold-mounted Meissen portrait snuff box, circa 1750-55

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £9,375 inc. premium

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A gold-mounted Meissen portrait snuff box, circa 1750-55

Superbly painted on the inside of the cover with a large portrait of a lady, wearing an asymmetrically wrapped bodice set off with lacework and a puce billowing cape over her shoulders, placed against a detailed background of heavy embroidered and tasselled curtains and marble column interior, decorated on all sides with playing children, the cover with scenes of dancing children, the sides each with a complete scene of children at play, one with a child on a hobby horse and another holding a cat wrapped in a blanket as a baby, playing cards and balls and playing masquerades, the base with a boy standing on a table blowing bubbles, set in a later gold mount, 8cm across

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