A MEISSEN SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX

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A MEISSEN SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1760?????, BLUE CORSSED SWORDS INSIDE BASE, THE MOUNT WITH FRENCH CONTROL MARK 1893-1970

Shaped as a scallop shelll and finely painted in colours with bouquets and scattered sprigs, the interior of the cover with a portrait of Franz Graf Nadasdy, the base with one corner restuck
3 1/16in. (7.8cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1985, no. 210 for a double box painted with portraits of Cavalry General Franz Graf Nadasdy (1708-1783) on which the present portrait attribution is based.