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A Meissen gilt-metal-mounted snuffbox, circa 1737-40
6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
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A Meissen gilt-metal-mounted snuffbox, circa 1737-40
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, cartouche-shaped, the front and back moulded with scroll- and strapwork cartouches enclosing low-relief hunting scenes, the cover with a larger scene and cartouche and the base with a hunting scene, the sides with anthemion and scrollwork motifs, the inside cover finely painted with a Kauffahrtei scene depicting merchants and their wares at a quayside, the interior gilt, 7.2cm wide, 5.5cm high (tiny flat chip to edge on inside cover)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Helmut Joseph Collection of Porcelain Snuff Boxes, sold in these rooms, 5 July 2011, lot 18
Literature:
H. Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain in Colour (1979), pp. 96-97;
B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts (1985), no. 145;
B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Collection of 18th Century Porcelain Boxes (1988), no. 43;
M. Cassidy-Geiger, Princes and Porcelain on the Grand Tour in Italy, in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.). Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts ca. 1710-63 (2007), fig. 1-31, cat. no. 10
Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
New York, The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63, 15 November 2007 to 10 February 2008, no. 10;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010
Kändler's work report for May 1737 includes: '1 sehr mühsame Tabatiere für d. Herrn geh. Rath v. Brühl Exc. angefangen, darauf sehr viele flache Zierrathen befindlich, und sollen Jagd Stückgen auf die Deckel und Seiten gefertigt werden, welche aber bis in kommenden Monat vollends zu fertigen aufbehalten worden' [1 very laborious snuff box begun for the Privy Councillor Exc. von Brühl, on which there are very many flat decorations, and hunt scenes should be completed on the cover and sides, which will be kept to be finished next month]. The work reports indicate that Kändler completed the box in July or August of 1737.
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