Lot Essay
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky (Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1985, p. 124, no. 93) illustrates an example of very similar form and decoration.
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MEISSEN, CIRCA 1755
Details
A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX
Meissen, circa 1755
Oval box, the cover base and sides painted with huntsmen, Oriental merchants, gallants and companions in river-landscapes with Dresden castles and palaces including the Albrechtsburg and the the Brühlsche Terrassen, within shaped oval scroll cartouches with flower-sprays, the cartouches of the sides and base scroll-moulded, the interior of the cover with a lady seated on a terrace accompanied by two gallants in a Saxon landscape, the gold mounts chased with a fluted basket-weave pattern
2½ in. (65 mm.) wide
Meissen, circa 1755
Oval box, the cover base and sides painted with huntsmen, Oriental merchants, gallants and companions in river-landscapes with Dresden castles and palaces including the Albrechtsburg and the the Brühlsche Terrassen, within shaped oval scroll cartouches with flower-sprays, the cartouches of the sides and base scroll-moulded, the interior of the cover with a lady seated on a terrace accompanied by two gallants in a Saxon landscape, the gold mounts chased with a fluted basket-weave pattern
2½ in. (65 mm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Zurich, 23 November 1978, lot 50 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-25).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-25).
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