BY JOSEPH WOLFGANG SCHMIDT (FL. 1769-1836), MARKED, VIENNA, 1794

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AN AUSTRIAN JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
BY JOSEPH WOLFGANG SCHMIDT (FL. 1769-1836), MARKED, VIENNA, 1794
oval box of jasper agate with polished gold mounts, with jewelled-set silver-mounted thumbpiece, with applied gold chinoiserie scene on the cover depicting a seated lady and her suitor amidst foliage
3 1/8 in. (80 mm.) wide

Provenance

Antique Porcelain Company, New York, 1966.

Literature

Illustrated in Clare Le Corbeiller, European and American Snuff Boxes 1730-1830, London, 1966, No 458.

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Lot Essay

Joseph Wolfgang Schmidt is recorded in Vienna 1769-1836. During the period 1801-11 he is recorded at Kohlmarkt 1218, and listed as a Galanteriearbeiter 1802-36. For a similar example see Sotheby's, Geneva, 6 May 1981, lot 125, a shaped rectangular bloodstone box with identical chinoiserie scene with the charge and decharge marks for Hubert Louvet 1732-1738, Paris, 1737/1738. Similarly see Sotheby's, Geneva, 7 May 1982, lot 136, for a Viennese cartouche-shaped bloodstone mounted box with maker's mark D.D Vienna, 1795, the cover applied with two peasants carousing. For another lot by this goldsmith see lot 82.

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