CIRCA 1760

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A FÜRSTENBERG GILT-METAL MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
Circa 1760
Of bombé form, painted in puce with a vignette of Cupid, blindfolded, shooting hearts, the box with Cupids, swans and love birds, within scroll moulded cartouches, the interior of the cover with a polychrome vignette of a gallant gazing at a portrait of a lady, with hinged gilt metal mount
3½ in. (9 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

See Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des Manufactures Européennes au 18e siècle (Fribourg, 1985), p. 298, no 246 for a box with similar moulding. The decoration of the interior of the cover is most probably after an engraving by J.E. Nilson.

Right, detail of reverse

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