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A Doccia large gilt-metal-mounted oval snuff box, circa 1745 image 1
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Lot 130*

A Doccia large gilt-metal-mounted oval snuff box, circa 1745

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7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Doccia large gilt-metal-mounted oval snuff box, circa 1745

Painted with classical figures in landscapes, the cover depicting a woman seated by an urn with fruit and flowers within a purple scrollwork cartouche edged with iron-red and gilt foliage in a moulded quatrelobe panel edged in iron-red, the front with a gilt-edged panel depicting a woman, possibly Diana, with two hounds, the reverse with a rectangular panel painted with an iron-red monochrome scene of a figure in a river landscape, within gilt and iron-red borders flanked by gilt scrolls, the moulded base with a gilt-edged purple landscape scene, the sides with iron-red scrollwork motifs, the inside cover with a quatrelobe panel depicting a lady holding a bird and basket of fruit within a gilt-edged frame with iron-red stripes, 10.1cm across; 5.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Aldo Pironti, Benevento (paper label no. 127 to interior);
Collezione R.B., Florence (by 1976);
European Private Collection since the 1980s

Literature:
A. Mottola Molfino, L'Arte della Porcellana in Italia Il Veneto e la Toscana (1976), no. 412

Saleroom notices

Please note the amended provenance and literature: Provenance: Contessa Ancilotti; Aldo Pironti, Benevento (paper label no. 127 to interior); Anon. sale, Christies Geneva, 20 April 1975, lot 27; Collezione R.B., Florence (by 1976); European Private Collection since the 1980s Literature: L. Ginori Lisci, Tabbachchiere di Doccia, in Pantheon (March-April 1965), pl. 7; A. Mottola Molfino, L'Arte della Porcellana in Italia Il Veneto e la Toscana (1976), no. 412

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