A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN CHINOISERIE SNUFF-BOX

Property formerly in the Collection of JAKOB GOLDSCHMIDT

Details

A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN CHINOISERIE SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS IN INTERIOR

Of oval bombé form, the cover front and back painted in colours with scenes of Chinamen taking tea, smoking and conversing flanked by shrubs above gilt bracket and elaborate gilt scrollwork, the side with single figures on brackets, the interior of the cover with a similar scene, the bases with Chinamen in a landscape in puce camaïeu
2 9/16in. (6.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See Barbara Beauchamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1985, nos. 9 and 11 for other Meissen Chinoiserie bozes painted with some of the same figures taken from the Schulz Codex found on the present example.