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For another box painted with a castle and rocky mountainous landscape, perhaps inspired by the Albrechtsburg and the table mountains of the Elbe Sandstone Range, see Ulrich Pietsch in Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky et al., Meissen Snuff-Boxes of the Eighteenth Century, Röbbig, Munich, 2013, p. 276, Cat. no. 70.
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The cover is lacquered and restored, the gilt-copper mount is worn, there is some slight rubbing to the gilt interior of the box, some minor scratching to the enamelled scenes.
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