A MEISSEN GILTMETAL-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER painted in green camaieu with flesh tints with dwarves after Jacques Callot playing musical instruments and dancing on grassy mounds, the interior to the cover painted in colours with Commedia dell'Arte figures, Pierrot and his companion seated before trees and Harlequin hiding in a bush behind in a landscape, the interior to the base richly gilt (very minor scratches to cover and slight rubbing to underside of base), circa 1745

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A MEISSEN GILTMETAL-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER painted in green camaieu with flesh tints with dwarves after Jacques Callot playing musical instruments and dancing on grassy mounds, the interior to the cover painted in colours with Commedia dell'Arte figures, Pierrot and his companion seated before trees and Harlequin hiding in a bush behind in a landscape, the interior to the base richly gilt (very minor scratches to cover and slight rubbing to underside of base), circa 1745
10cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Barbara Beauchamp-Markowsky, op. cit., pp. 128-131, nos. 97 and 98 for further examples using the same print sources

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