Details
Painted front and back in the manner of Watteau with courting couples and children in gardens, within colorful scrollwork surrounds and a puce chequerboard pattern, with gold stylus, the red silk interior and paper inside possibly later in date
334 in. (9.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984).
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Lot Essay

Compare to the Meissen snuff-boxes with very similar or related decoration illustrated by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 114 and pp. 116-119, dated by the author to circa 1750-1760.

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