The exterior painted with trailing garlands of flowers within a rocaille scroll border edged with puce scale pattern, the underside of the cover painted with figures standing before the Albrechtsburg and the old Elbe Bridge in Meissen
3³⁄₈ in. (8.5 cm.) x 2³⁄₄ in. (7 cm.)

Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p.209, fig.139.

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Lot Essay

Another snuff-box with a similar view of Albrechtsburg, sold in these Rooms on 27 November 2013, lot 74. See also the example illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch in Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky et al., Meissen Snuff-Boxes of the Eighteenth Century, Röbbig, Munich, 2013, p. 169, cat. no. 32.