A Birmingham enamel snuff-box

CIRCA 1765

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A Birmingham enamel snuff-box
circa 1765
Oblong, the white ground cover printed and painted with Les Amours Pastorales, after Hancock from an engraving by Duflos, after Boucher reserved in raised gold scrolls, the interior with the bust of a female, the long sides with The Fishing Party, after Hancock after Boitard and a musician playing as a gentleman watches his lady dance, the short sides with seated lovers guarding their flocks or reclining against the trunk of a tree, all similarly reserved, the matching base with two birds perched at an upturned basket, after Robert Hancock, with engraved gilt-metal mounts
3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. The Mullens Collection, Christie's, 18 March 1987, lot 423, Watney and Charleston (op.cit.), pls.78 and 103, R.Sayer, The Ladies Amusement or Whole Art of Japanning Made Easy, facsimile edition, 1959, pp. 32, 74 and S. Benjamin, English Enamel Boxes, p.81.

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