The exterior painted with shepherds and shepherdesses within lightly molded rocaille cartouches enriched in puce and orange, the interior of the cover with a portrait of a female lute player
3¹⁄₈ in. (7.9 cm.) long

The Antique Porcelain Company, New York.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.

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An oval snuff-box with related molding is illustrated by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 353, no. 289, which the author attributes to Frankenthal, circa 1765. The lady playing the lute on the interior of the cover is derived from Johann Esais Nilson’s engraving La Musique du cabinet. The same print is the source for the decoration on the cover of a box Beaucamp-Markowsky attributed to Frankenthal, see ibid., p. 354, no. 290, and a box attributed to Fürstenberg, p. 289 and p. 300, no. 247, and also see p. 299 where the print is illustrated.