VIENNA, CIRCA 1770, THE INSIDE OF THE LID STRUCK WITH PSEUDO-FRENCH PRESTIGE MARKS FOR CLAUDE PERRON, PARIS 1769/1770, THE ENAMEL PLAQUE ON THE BASE BY PHILIPP ERNST SCHINDLER II (1723-1793), SIGNED 'SCHIND[LER] W[IEN]' (LOWER RIGHT), LATER STRUCK WITH THE VIENNA DUTY MARK ('GOLDREPUNZE') FOR 1806/1807

Details

AN AUSTRIAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Vienna, circa 1770, the inside of the lid struck with pseudo-French prestige marks for Claude Perron, Paris 1769/1770, the enamel plaque on the base by Philipp Ernst Schindler II (1723-1793), signed 'Schind[ler] W[ien]' (lower right), later struck with the Vienna duty mark ('Goldrepunze') for 1806/1807
Oval box, the cover and base centred by oval enamel miniatures painted in grisaille on a blue ground with mothers with their children in the manner of Boucher, within reeded gold and blue enamelled Greek key borders, the sides of the base enamelled with translucent blue basse taille vertical flutes alternating with tondi enclosing gold taille d'épargne flowerheads, bright-cut gold rims
2 in. (50 mm.) wide

Provenance

A Gentleman; Sotheby's, London, 21 March 1966, lot 70 (£1,550 to Noel).
With S. J. Phillips, London.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Philipp Ernst Schindler II, the son of a porcelain painter of the same name at Meissen, worked himself at Meissen about 1740-1750. In 1750, he moved to Vienna and became director of painting at the Imperial porcelain factory in 1777. Schindler appears to have been allowed to work as an enameller for gold boxes from the 1760s. C. Truman (The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, no. 136, p. 394) points out that 'Schindler's later style turned towards grisaille painting of putti and children after François Boucher [...]'.

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