Lot Essay
See the almost identical snuff-box illustrated by Rainer Slotta, Gerhard Lehmann and Ulrich Pietsch, Ein fein bergmannig Porcelan (Essen 1999), p. 342.
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CIRCA 1740, CONTEMPORARY MOUNTS
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A Meissen gilt-metal mounted trefoil mining snuff-box
Circa 1740, contemporary mounts
Painted by B.G. Haer with a continuous landscape with miners sorting and grading ore and at various pursuits, the base with two miners at rest, the rounded triangular cover with three miners by a pile of ore, one with a pick and one with the gilt AR monogram on his hat, the interior of the cover with a master miner, a gentleman and a miner at discussion by a pile of ore before distant huts
2.3/8 in. (5.9 cm.) wide
Circa 1740, contemporary mounts
Painted by B.G. Haer with a continuous landscape with miners sorting and grading ore and at various pursuits, the base with two miners at rest, the rounded triangular cover with three miners by a pile of ore, one with a pick and one with the gilt AR monogram on his hat, the interior of the cover with a master miner, a gentleman and a miner at discussion by a pile of ore before distant huts
2.3/8 in. (5.9 cm.) wide