CIRCA 1740, CROSSED SWORDS TO BASE OF INTERIOR BENEATH GILDING, MOUNTED CIRCA 1830 AS A VINAIGRETTE, THE GOLD MOUNTS WITH DIAMOND SETTINGS

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A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED POWDERED PURPLE-GROUND OVAL SNUFF-BOX
Circa 1740, crossed swords to base of interior beneath gilding, mounted circa 1830 as a vinaigrette, the gold mounts with diamond settings
The ground reserved with two landscape vignettes, the front with Orientals at discussion by a building and column surmounted by wrestlers before a bay below with ships and a galleon, the reverse with Orientals on the steps of a temple above a palin with camels and figures before a distant city at the foot of mountains, within black and gilt line quatrefoil cartouches, the interior richly gilt, the gold cover moulded with pierced diaper ornament
3 1/8in. (8cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See Mary Campbell Gristina, The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Cummer Gallery of Art, 1984, no. 547 for a snuff-box and cover of similar form and ground-colour to the present example, painted with harbor scenes and with gallants in metropolitan settings reserved within quarefoil cartouches.

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