Lot 302
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A BERLIN GILT-METAL MOUNTED RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX, the green-scale-ground reserved with pink ground panels painted in imitation of cameos with The Three Graces and trophies, the base with cupid blowing bubbles and the interior of the cover finely stippled in colours with a lady at her dressing table trimming her pigtail accompanied by a gallant (the base broken and repaired), circa 1780

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A BERLIN GILT-METAL MOUNTED RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX, the green-scale-ground reserved with pink ground panels painted in imitation of cameos with The Three Graces and trophies, the base with cupid blowing bubbles and the interior of the cover finely stippled in colours with a lady at her dressing table trimming her pigtail accompanied by a gallant (the base broken and repaired), circa 1780

Lot Essay

Cf. Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, no. 274 for the same scene inside the cover

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