A GEORGE II GOLD SNUFF-BOX
A GEORGE II GOLD SNUFF-BOX

PROBABLY LONDON, CIRCA 1740, THE COVER SIGNED C S, POSSIBLY FOR CHRISTOPH JAKOB SEDELMAYR (FL. FROM 1740), THE FLANGE WITH UNIDENTIFIED MARK

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A GEORGE II GOLD SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY LONDON, CIRCA 1740, THE COVER SIGNED C S, POSSIBLY FOR CHRISTOPH JAKOB SEDELMAYR (FL. FROM 1740), THE FLANGE WITH UNIDENTIFIED MARK
cartouche-shaped box, the cover boldly chased with the figure of Neptune seated in his chariot and being drawn by two sea-horses across a harbour with the shoreline beyond, within scrolling rocaille, sea-shells and bull-rushes, in the manner of Meissonnier, on a frosted ground, the base similarly chased, with polished gold sides and raised foliate thumbpiece
3¼ in. (82 mm.) wide
4½ oz. (142 gr.)
来源
Christie's, Rome, 1 December 1993, lot 370.

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It has been suggested that C S is the mark of Christoph Jakob Sedelmayr. Born in 1716 he was a goldworker and Galanteriearbeiter who became a master in Augsburg in 1742 (H. Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede, vol. III, no. 2341) and who had spent some years previously in London on his Wanderjahre, the travelling years undertaken by craftsmen between their apprenticeships and their return to Augsburg. In London he made such progress that 'seine Arbeiten den engländischen in Zeichnung und genauer Ausführung ganz gleich zu schätzen waren' ['his work was equal to those of the English with regard to both drawing and detail'] (P. von Stetten, Kunst- Gewerk- und Handwerks Geschichte der Reichs-Stadt Augsburg, Augsburg, 1779-88, p. 488, quoted in R. Edgcumbe, The Art of the Gold Chaser, London, 2000, p. 16).
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier's engraved designs for snuff-boxes in the rocaille style published in his Livre d'Ornemens, Paris, 1734, influenced many goldsmiths on the Continent and in England throughout the Rococo period, K. Snowman, Eighteenth-Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Woodbridge, 1990, pp. 44, 45 and 137.