19TH CENTURY

Name: A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
Brand: 19TH CENTURY
Price: 2000.00 GBP
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Closed: 25 Sep 2024

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A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER

19TH CENTURY

Closed: 25 Sep 2024

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The puce mosaic ornament ground exterior centred by gilt crosses and reserved with panels painted with armorous couples in park landscape vignettes edged with brightly-coloured rocaille cartouches, the cover with a man playing the Polish goat bagpipes to a seated couple, the cover interior with two couples before a philosopher herm, a lady taking a bird from its cage, the contemporary waved mount with a waved thumbpiece
3⁷⁄₈ in. (9.7 cm.) wide overall

Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p.188, fig. 114.

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Lot Essay

A cartouche-shaped snuff-box with a very similar mosaic ground and brightly-coloured cartouches is illustrated by M. Röbbig-Reyes in Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky , Röbbig, Munich, 2013, pp. 266-267. For another similar example see Ulrich Pietsch , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Exhibition Catalogue, Dresden 2010, p.367, p. 463.