Lot Essay
Cf. Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, p. 353, no. 289 for an example with similar moulding
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CIRCA 1770, PERHAPS FÜRSTENBERG, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
Details
A German porcelain copper-gilt mounted oval snuff-box and a cover
Circa 1770, perhaps Fürstenberg, the mounts contemporary
Painted with putti at various pursuits before monuments within scroll, flower and foliage-moulded cartouches enriched in puce, the interior to the cover with two putti holding flowers before a monument of rococo scroll outline and among shrubs
8.5 cm. wide
Circa 1770, perhaps Fürstenberg, the mounts contemporary
Painted with putti at various pursuits before monuments within scroll, flower and foliage-moulded cartouches enriched in puce, the interior to the cover with two putti holding flowers before a monument of rococo scroll outline and among shrubs
8.5 cm. wide
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