CIRCA 1740

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A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted erotic snuff-box
Circa 1740
(Tabatière in Form eines Körbchens) the model probably by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1735), of quatrefoil oval basket form, the white-ground outside modelled in relief with Sulkowsky-Flechtrelief muster pattern in relief, the inside of the cover painted in colours with the half-length portrait of a nude maiden (Susanna) holding a white garment, flanked by a bearded elderly man holding an arm around her, a young child peeping over her shoulder, the inside gilt
7.2cm. wide
See illustration

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Lot Essay

Cf. B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts (Munich 1985), p.186 ill.142 for a snuff-box of similar shape.
The scene possibly allegorical for the tale of Susanna seduced by the elders.

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