CIRCA 1745
Details
A Meissen gold-mounted circular snuff-box
Circa 1745
Moulded with concentric ribs divided by spirally radiating bands of scale-pattern, painted with butterflies, ladybirds, caterpillars and other insects, the interior of the cover painted in the manner of C.F. Herold with a harbour scene with a gentleman, companions and merchants before a towered building and a distant ship, the interior richly gilt (minute star crack to centre of cover, minor glaze scratches to base)
3in. (7.7cm.) diam.
Circa 1745
Moulded with concentric ribs divided by spirally radiating bands of scale-pattern, painted with butterflies, ladybirds, caterpillars and other insects, the interior of the cover painted in the manner of C.F. Herold with a harbour scene with a gentleman, companions and merchants before a towered building and a distant ship, the interior richly gilt (minute star crack to centre of cover, minor glaze scratches to base)
3in. (7.7cm.) diam.
Literature
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, op. cit., (1985), p. 199, no. 154 and Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain in Colour (1979), p. 97.