CIRCA 1742-45, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY

細節

A Meissen gold-mounted rectangular snuff-box
CIRCA 1742-45, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
Finely painted after Watteau with vignettes of gentlemen and their companions in wooded landscapes with obelisks, the sides each with a lady, one playing the mandolin, the interior of the cover with two ladies seated on a knoll before a tree on a hill with a fine view of a distant port with fortified buildings, two girls seated immediately behind them, one lady reading from a book, the other with a cat playing with a ball of thread, the interior richly gilt (small shallow chipping to front edge of cover near mount, slight scratching to enamels on base, small areas of wear to gilt interior, cover interior with small minor scratch), the rims and rounded corners mounted en cage with waved gold mounts
3½ in. (8.8 cm.) wide

注意事項

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拍品專文

None of the Watteau subjects on this box are published in S. Ducret, Keramik und Graphik (Brunswick, 1973), nor are they the same as any used on the service made fro the Princes Reuss, which emphasises the large number of engravings at the painters' disposal. The pair of figures on the hinge side of the box also occur on a box in the Dresden Porzellansammlung, see B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en porcelaine (Fribourg, 1985), no. 92. The figures on the front are taken from L'embarquement par Cythère. The en cage gold mount is similar to that on the portrait box of Lady Caroline Fox ordered by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in Dresden in 1748. See B. Beaucamp-Markowsky loc. cit., no. 117.