Lot 79
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A GEORGE III ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX, circa 1765, Liverpool or South Staffordshire, the cover scene after a print attributed to Robert Hancock, oblong, transfer-printed in black on white ground with a scene of the 'Two Gossips' two women seated talking, with two children playing with a dog and a third with a toy windmill, the sides and base with buildings and ruins in landscapes, the interior with an actress wearing a pink dress with a yellow bodice, with gilt-metal mounts-- 2¾ in. (7cm.) long

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A GEORGE III ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX, circa 1765, Liverpool or South Staffordshire, the cover scene after a print attributed to Robert Hancock, oblong, transfer-printed in black on white ground with a scene of the 'Two Gossips' two women seated talking, with two children playing with a dog and a third with a toy windmill, the sides and base with buildings and ruins in landscapes, the interior with an actress wearing a pink dress with a yellow bodice, with gilt-metal mounts-- 2¾ in. (7cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cyril Cook in the Life and Work of Robert Hancock, 1948, item 112, illustrates the design source of the cover scene, a print from The Compleat Drawing Book, third edition, published by Robert Sayer in 1762, which he attributes to Robert Hancock. He states that the subject is after the original by N.C. Cochin Jr., circa 1745 and it 'does not seem to be recorded on porcelain and enamel.' However, the scene painted in colors in the interior of a Meissen snuff-box is recorded by B. Beaukamp-Markovsky Catalogue of 18th Century Porcelain Boxes, 1988, fig. 28.

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