CIRCA 1760-80, PERHAPS FRANKENTHAL

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A GERMAN PORCELAIN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1760-80, PERHAPS FRANKENTHAL
Painted with vignettes of Turkish figures in parkland with European and exotic plants, the cover with a pair of elegantly dressed Turkish lovers being spied upon from behind a garden ornament, the interior with Turks on a riverbank, the mounts chased with scrolls (small chip to rim of cover, wear to edge of base)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

For a rectangular snuff-box attributed to Frankenthal and painted with figures in a similar style to those on the present lot see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 367, no. 300. Also see p. 330, no. 270 for a Berlin box painted on the inside of the cover with a scene of an almost identical composition but including mythological figures rather than Turkish ones, indicating that the scene was probably from the same as yet unidentified print source.

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