A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARTOUCHE SHAPED SNUFF-BOX painted in imitation of Limoges enamel, the black ground reserved with oriental flowers, tooled scrolls and gilt foliage scrolls, the interior of the cover painted in black monochrome after Watteau with a shepherd and shepherdess about to release a bird from a cage and the interior of the base richly gilt, the reeded contemporary mounts with bracket thumbpiece (three slight flakes to cover), circa 1745

细节

A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARTOUCHE SHAPED SNUFF-BOX painted in imitation of Limoges enamel, the black ground reserved with oriental flowers, tooled scrolls and gilt foliage scrolls, the interior of the cover painted in black monochrome after Watteau with a shepherd and shepherdess about to release a bird from a cage and the interior of the base richly gilt, the reeded contemporary mounts with bracket thumbpiece (three slight flakes to cover), circa 1745
7cm. wide

来源

Anon. sale Christie's Geneva, 30 April 1975, lot 230

拍品专文

Cf. Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Collection of 18th Century Porcelain Boxes, no. 21 for a similar style of decoration to the exterior