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CIRCA 1754, THE CONTEMPORARY MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN DUCROLLAY, PARIS 1754-55, WITH ANOTHER CONTROL MARK, PROBABLY A LATER DUTCH MARK
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A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1754, THE CONTEMPORARY MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN DUCROLLAY, PARIS 1754-55, WITH ANOTHER CONTROL MARK, PROBABLY A LATER DUTCH MARK
The cover, sides and undersides painted with bucolic scenes, probably after David Teniers the Younger, with peasants outside inns, drinking, smoking, in conversation and dancing, among furniture, upturned barrels, pottery and animals, before landscapes, within shaped panels softly-moulded with scrolls enriched in shades of pale-pink and yellow and with trailing flowers, the interior of the cover painted in a stipple technique, attributed to Johann Jacob Wagner, with Venus, Cupid and an attendant by two sheep among grassy rockwork, a flock of sheep and a goat in the distance, the two-colour-gold hinged mounts with a band of foliage and buds on a matt ground between diaper-pattern bands
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1754, THE CONTEMPORARY MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN DUCROLLAY, PARIS 1754-55, WITH ANOTHER CONTROL MARK, PROBABLY A LATER DUTCH MARK
The cover, sides and undersides painted with bucolic scenes, probably after David Teniers the Younger, with peasants outside inns, drinking, smoking, in conversation and dancing, among furniture, upturned barrels, pottery and animals, before landscapes, within shaped panels softly-moulded with scrolls enriched in shades of pale-pink and yellow and with trailing flowers, the interior of the cover painted in a stipple technique, attributed to Johann Jacob Wagner, with Venus, Cupid and an attendant by two sheep among grassy rockwork, a flock of sheep and a goat in the distance, the two-colour-gold hinged mounts with a band of foliage and buds on a matt ground between diaper-pattern bands
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
The Late Connal Wade Harris, Esq., sale Christie's 7th October 1985, lot 187.
Literature
Barbara Beauchamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle (Fribourg, 1985), p. 137, no. 102 and p. 603 for the marks to the mount.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.