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18TH CENTURY
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Two white porcelain groups and four enamel snuff boxes
18th Century
Comprising: a Meissen hunting group naturalistically moulded in relief with a wolf attacked by three hounds, flanked by a gnarled tree, on an oval base encrusted with flower-heads, 17.7cm. high (various chips); a Vienna group of two putti playing with a large bird of prey, on ogival shaped rocaille base, marked with a Bindenschild in underglaze blue, 14cm. high (repaired); a South-Staffordshire white enamel oval snuff box, the lid with a yellow bird and flowers, the base with fluting and decorated in iron-red; an oval patch box with blue and white marbled oval panel to the top surrounded by flower-sprays, the lobed base with similar flowers, a mirror to the inside, 4.5cm. wide, a gilt metal-mounted white enamel oval snuff box decorated en camaïeu rose with mythological figures; a pale yellow-ground snuff box with white panels painted en grisaille with cherubs and mythological figures, 9.5cm. wide (6)
18th Century
Comprising: a Meissen hunting group naturalistically moulded in relief with a wolf attacked by three hounds, flanked by a gnarled tree, on an oval base encrusted with flower-heads, 17.7cm. high (various chips); a Vienna group of two putti playing with a large bird of prey, on ogival shaped rocaille base, marked with a Bindenschild in underglaze blue, 14cm. high (repaired); a South-Staffordshire white enamel oval snuff box, the lid with a yellow bird and flowers, the base with fluting and decorated in iron-red; an oval patch box with blue and white marbled oval panel to the top surrounded by flower-sprays, the lobed base with similar flowers, a mirror to the inside, 4.5cm. wide, a gilt metal-mounted white enamel oval snuff box decorated en camaïeu rose with mythological figures; a pale yellow-ground snuff box with white panels painted en grisaille with cherubs and mythological figures, 9.5cm. wide (6)