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Lot 172

A Saint-Cloud silver-mounted pagoda snuff box, circa 1735

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Saint-Cloud silver-mounted pagoda snuff box, circa 1735

His robes painted with polychrome chinoiserie vignettes with flowers, buildings and figures, his face embellished in iron-red and blue, the cover with similar vignettes inside and out, 6.7cm high, the silver mounts with Paris discharge mark (une tete de renard) for Louis Robin, 1735-8

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Provenance:
With Gary Atkins, London;
British American Tobacco Collection of Eighteenth-Century Tobacco Containers & Accessories (acquired from the above in 1986)

Literature:
D. Gage/M. Marsh, Tobacco Containers & Accessories (1988), no. 24

Exhibited:
London, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, The Dorchester Hotel, Special Loan Exhibition, The British-American Tobacco Company Collection of Tobacco Containers & Accessories, 10-13 June 1988

Three similar boxes in the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, are published by B. Rondot (ed.), Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory, ca. 1690-1766 (1999), no. 192.

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