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A GILT-METAL MOUNTED GERMAN SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1750
The sides and bottom of the rectangular box painted in colours with scenes of rural leisure, reserved on the pink ground within moulded rocaille cartouches enriched in iron-red and peach, the top with figures beside a ruin and a castle at the shore, sailing ships in the background, reserved on the white ground within puce and pale yellow rocaille cartouches enriched with gilt, the interior finely painted with a mounted traveller asking directions of two figures seated by the side of the road opposite the ruins of a castle, top and bottom a marriage, chip to lower left corner of cover, surface wear
1¾ x 3 3/8 x 2½in. (4.5 x 8.6 x 6.3cm.)
CIRCA 1750
The sides and bottom of the rectangular box painted in colours with scenes of rural leisure, reserved on the pink ground within moulded rocaille cartouches enriched in iron-red and peach, the top with figures beside a ruin and a castle at the shore, sailing ships in the background, reserved on the white ground within puce and pale yellow rocaille cartouches enriched with gilt, the interior finely painted with a mounted traveller asking directions of two figures seated by the side of the road opposite the ruins of a castle, top and bottom a marriage, chip to lower left corner of cover, surface wear
1¾ x 3 3/8 x 2½in. (4.5 x 8.6 x 6.3cm.)