A FURSTENBERG SILVER-MOUNTED PUCE-SCALE OVAL SNUFF-BOX with lightly moulded scroll cartouches painted with gallants and companions at various pursuits in landscape vignettes, the inside of the cover with a gallant and companion déshabillée drinking, the interior of the base richly gilt, the mount perhaps later (slightly scratched near mount), circa 1770

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A FURSTENBERG SILVER-MOUNTED PUCE-SCALE OVAL SNUFF-BOX with lightly moulded scroll cartouches painted with gallants and companions at various pursuits in landscape vignettes, the inside of the cover with a gallant and companion déshabillée drinking, the interior of the base richly gilt, the mount perhaps later (slightly scratched near mount), circa 1770
8cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18^e siècle, no. 87 for a Meissen box with a similar scene in the interior taken from a painting by Jean-Marc Nattier engraved by F. Joullain, a similar example of a different shape sold Sotheby's, 6 October 1981, lot 120

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