A MEISSEN SILVERGILT-MOUNTED PUCE DIAPER-GROUND OVAL SNUFF-BOX painted and stippled with battle scenes and soldiers in encampments within scroll cartouches on a hatched puce ground with gilt florettes, the interior of the cover with another skirmish, figures on horseback in battle (slight rubbing to edge of base), circa 1750

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A MEISSEN SILVERGILT-MOUNTED PUCE DIAPER-GROUND OVAL SNUFF-BOX painted and stippled with battle scenes and soldiers in encampments within scroll cartouches on a hatched puce ground with gilt florettes, the interior of the cover with another skirmish, figures on horseback in battle (slight rubbing to edge of base), circa 1750
6.5cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, op. cit., pp. 57-59, no. 25 for a box with a similar ground; see also Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, ibid., pp. 82-83, nos. 51 and 52 and pp. 86-87, nos. 55 and 56 for other boxes with battle scenes

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