A GILT-METAL MOUNTED MEISSEN FLATTENED GLOBULAR SNUFF-BOX
A GILT-METAL MOUNTED MEISSEN FLATTENED GLOBULAR SNUFF-BOX

CIRCA 1750-1760, THE MOUNTS POSSIBLY OF LATER DATE

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A GILT-METAL MOUNTED MEISSEN FLATTENED GLOBULAR SNUFF-BOX
Circa 1750-1760, the mounts possibly of later date
Painted with scattered bouquets and sprigs of Deutsche Blumen, the interior of the cover in the manner of Boucher with figures conversing in a garden
2.1/8in. (5.4cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See Barbara Beauchamp-Markowsky, Collection of 18th Century Porcelain Boxes on Loan to the Rijlsmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1988, no. 25 for a Meissen box of similar date, the interior of its cover painted with the same scene as the present example.

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