CIRCA 1780, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY

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A Vienna gold-mounted oval snuff-box
Circa 1780, the mounts contemporary
Finely painted with pastoral vignettes, the front with a farm-girl and boy fishing in a lake, the reverse with a girl and a boy seated with a bird in a cage, within oval gilt and grisaille ovolo ornament cartouches flanked by shaped pink panels divided by grisaille paterae, the base with a farm-girl and a shepherd by a spring before farm buildings, the cover with a shepherd near a farm-girl bathing in a pool, before buildings and a church, the front edge with gilt and grisaille spheres divided by thin pink panels, the interior of the cover with a tradesman observing four bathing women, two of them naked in a pool and embracing (areas of slight wear to gilding and scratching to enamels, wear to gilt edge of base, interior with flaking to enamels of tradesman's coat), the mounts with a swag thumbpiece
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) wide overall

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

See Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle (Fribourg, 1985), p. 254 and 268 for Vienna boxes of similar form and p. 273, no. 220, for a box decorated with related panels.

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