Lot Essay
The Spanish inscription on the mount of this snuff-box, indicating its location in a vitrine or cabinet makes it tempting to suppose that it left Naples with Carlo III's court in 1759.
This model exists in at least three sizes of which the present example is the second largest. Numerous specimens exist, witness to the great success of the model which is first recorded in late 1743.
For further extensive dicussion of this group of boxes see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, op. cit. (1986), pp. 234 and 247, fig. 190a and Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine (1985), pp. 528/529, nos. 483, 484.
This model exists in at least three sizes of which the present example is the second largest. Numerous specimens exist, witness to the great success of the model which is first recorded in late 1743.
For further extensive dicussion of this group of boxes see Angela Caròla-Perrotti, op. cit. (1986), pp. 234 and 247, fig. 190a and Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine (1985), pp. 528/529, nos. 483, 484.