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PROBABLEMENT AUTRICHE, VERS 1770; L'ÉMAIL SIGNÉ CHUDY POUR WENCESLAS CHUDY (VERS 1730-1790)

    Price Realised EUR 8,190
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    EUR 5,000 - EUR 8,000
    Closed: 22 Nov 2023
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    TABATIÈRE EN ÉMAIL ET OR

    PROBABLEMENT AUTRICHE, VERS 1770; L'ÉMAIL SIGNÉ CHUDY POUR WENCESLAS CHUDY (VERS 1730-1790)

    Price Realised EUR 8,190
    Closed: 22 Nov 2023
    Price Realised EUR 8,190
    Closed: 22 Nov 2023
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    De forme triangulaire plate, le couvercle et la base chacun sertis de trois plaques émaillées en camaïeu sépia de chérubins jouant dans les nuages, encadrées par des montures ciselées d’une frise de fleurons, les deux plaques intérieures figurant des allégories militaires, la monture des côtés en or uni moulurée de filets, poinçons sur la gorge : contrôle français postérieur; dans un écrin associé estampillé Wartski
    L.: 9,2 cm. (35⁄8 in.)
    Poids brut: 143 gr. (4 oz. 11 dwt.)
    Provenance
    The property of a Nobleman, Christie's, Genève, 21 mai 1997, lot 261.
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    AN AUSTRIAN ENAMEL AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
    CIRCA 1770, THE ENAMEL SIGNED CHUDY FOR WENCESLAS CHUDY (C.1730-1790)
    Triangular flat box, the cover and base set with three enamel plaques in brown camaïeu with playful putti in clouds at various pursuits including amorini with allegories of War and Peace inside, the outsides of cover and base divided by gold mounts chased with stylised fleur-de-lys, the plain gold sides framed by horizontal reeding, marked on flange with later French control marks; in associated Wartski case

    Wenceslas Chudy (1730-1790) was a miniaturist on porcelain and enamel, born in Bohemia. A portrait of the Empress Marie-Thérèse of Austria signed Chudy made in 1760 is now in the Victoria et Albert Museum, London (No d’accession P.14-1923).

    Comparative literature: Heinrich Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur, Vienna, 1981, volume I, pp. 43-44.
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