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A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX
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A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNT STRUCK TWICE WITH FRENCH IMPORT CONTROL MARKS FOR 1864-1893
The top, sides and bottom finely painted with scenes of gentlemen courting ladies with music in a garden, the interior of the cover with a similar scene of gentlemen playing a violin, flute and cello for their audience of three ladies, a castle on a cliff rising from the banks of a river in the left background, the interior with scattered flowers, the contemporary mount chased with basket-weave (tiny nicks to lower edge)--2 7/8in. (7.4cm.) wide
CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNT STRUCK TWICE WITH FRENCH IMPORT CONTROL MARKS FOR 1864-1893
The top, sides and bottom finely painted with scenes of gentlemen courting ladies with music in a garden, the interior of the cover with a similar scene of gentlemen playing a violin, flute and cello for their audience of three ladies, a castle on a cliff rising from the banks of a river in the left background, the interior with scattered flowers, the contemporary mount chased with basket-weave (tiny nicks to lower edge)--2 7/8in. (7.4cm.) wide