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CIRCA 1760-70, THE MOUNT PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
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A MEISSEN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1760-70, THE MOUNT PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Each facet painted with satirical animal subjects in landscape vignettes including a drunken hog, courting monkeys and a lamb dressed as a shepherd, within scroll-moulded cartouches, the mount flanked by puce scale-pattern borders, the interior of the hinged cover painted with a hound dressed as a huntsman playing a fiddle before dancing hares in a landscape, the mount with husks and gadroons and centred by a shell thumbpiece (two small chips to footrim, slight scratching to footrim, small flat chip to upper rim of box)
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) x 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) overall
CIRCA 1760-70, THE MOUNT PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Each facet painted with satirical animal subjects in landscape vignettes including a drunken hog, courting monkeys and a lamb dressed as a shepherd, within scroll-moulded cartouches, the mount flanked by puce scale-pattern borders, the interior of the hinged cover painted with a hound dressed as a huntsman playing a fiddle before dancing hares in a landscape, the mount with husks and gadroons and centred by a shell thumbpiece (two small chips to footrim, slight scratching to footrim, small flat chip to upper rim of box)
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) x 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) overall
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Rodney Woolley
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