A GOLD-MOUNTED MEISSEN PUCE-SCALE TOPOGRAPHICAL BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1755

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A GOLD-MOUNTED MEISSEN PUCE-SCALE TOPOGRAPHICAL BOX AND COVER
Circa 1755
Painted with a shaped band of puce scale-pattern edged in rocaille scrolls and suspending flower garlands which link as a pin-wheel on the top and bottom, the interior with a view of the Albrechtsburg from the far side of the river Elbe, the gold mount with meandering leaves
3.1/8in. (8cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See Margarete Oppenheim Collection; Julius Bhler, Munich, 1936, lot no. 279, Tafel 29 for a very similar puce-scale box, described in the catalogue as with the interior of the cover painted with a view of a city but illustarted with the top closed. Also see an Anon. sale, Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 1980, lot 198; and Alex Heine Porcelaens-Tabatiren, Coppenhagen, 1937, p. 69 and 71, nr. 75 for similar puce-scale boxes painted with the same view as the present example.