Lot Essay
The print of Le Clerc's Italianesque Scene was published in Bowles' Practical Geometry, 3ed, 1727. For this scene on the base of a snuff-box, see Watney and Charleston (op.cit.) pl. 101.
CIRCA 1765
Details
A Birmingham enamel snuff-box
circa 1765
Rectangular, the cover printed and painted with the Italianesque Scene, after Sebastien le Clerc, the slightly waisted white ground sides with flowersprays, the interior cover with an insect, with engraved gilt-metal mounts
2½in. (6.4cm.) wide
circa 1765
Rectangular, the cover printed and painted with the Italianesque Scene, after Sebastien le Clerc, the slightly waisted white ground sides with flowersprays, the interior cover with an insect, with engraved gilt-metal mounts
2½in. (6.4cm.) wide
Provenance
Ionides Collection, Sotheby's, 9 June 1975, lot 195.