Of tapering cylindrical form, the exterior and interior cover painted with elaborate boar and stag hunt scenes, the underside with puce hunt scene
2⁵⁄₈ in. (6.6 cm.) long

Philip Suval, New York, 1957.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.

B. Beauchamp Markowsky, 18th Century European Porcelain Boxes, Munich, 1985, p. 90, no. 60.

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A near identical box in form and decoration is illustrated by Sarah-Katharina Acevedo et al., Meissen snuff-boxes of the Eighteenth Century, Munich, 2013, p. 314, cat. no. 94, where Ulrich Pietsch dates the porcelain of the box to circa 1722-23 and the decoration to circa 1745.