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A rare Mennecy silver-mounted tobacco jar and cover, circa 1730-40, in a mid 18th-century fitted marquetry case image 1
A rare Mennecy silver-mounted tobacco jar and cover, circa 1730-40, in a mid 18th-century fitted marquetry case image 2
Lot 208

A rare Mennecy silver-mounted tobacco jar and cover, circa 1730-40, in a mid 18th-century fitted marquetry case

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

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A rare Mennecy silver-mounted tobacco jar and cover, circa 1730-40, in a mid 18th-century fitted marquetry case

Of cylindrical form with a domed cover and flared circular knop, painted in underglaze-blue in Saint-Cloud-style with bands of foliate scrollwork and a double-line border around the footrim, the finial painted with a stylised flowerhead on the top, in a veneered travelling box with marquetry top, lined in blue silk with an apeture for a spoon (missing), jar and cover: 15.9 cm high; the marquetry travelling case: 19 cm high; 15cm wide; 14.6cm deep incised D.V, contemporary silver mounts with discharge mark (une tete de renard) for Louis Robin, 1735-38 (minor flat rim chips below the mount) (3)

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Provenance:
Sold by Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 7 November 1985, lot 38;
British American Tobacco Collection of Eighteenth-Century Tobacco Containers & Accessories (acquired in the above sale)

Literature:
D. Gage/M. Marsh, Tobacco Containers & Accessories (1988), no. 16

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

This is a very rare example of Mennecy imitating the decoration of Saint-Cloud porcelain.

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