CIRCA 1750

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A GOLD-MOUNTED MEISSEN RECTANGULAR SNUFF BOX
Circa 1750
Painted in the style of Jean-Antoine Watteau with amorous couples in landscape vignettes enclosed within moulded rocaille scrolls delicately enriched in iron-red and purple, the bottom with a gallant seated beneath a tree, a dove perched on his upraised left hand, the interior of the cover with a courting couple seated beneath a tree, her straw hat on the ground to the left, her maid hiding behind a basket of flowers at the right
1 5/8x3 1/8x2 3/8in. (4.2x8x6cm.)

Lot Essay

See Barbara Beauchamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosendes 18.Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1985, no. 102 for a similarly moulded gold-mounted box painted in the manner of Teniers and von Ostade with peasants in landscapes, the interior of the cover with Venus and Cupid in a landscape with an attendant.

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