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
33⁄4 in. (9.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984).
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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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