1770-1775, DEUXIEME PERIODE, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY

Details

A Tournai gold-mounted oblong snuff-box and cover
1770-1775, DEUXIEME PERIODE, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
The cover, sides and underside painted with harbour and trade scenes, with ruins and harbour architecture, partly with Oriental and European figures to the foreground, the interior of the domed cover painted with a bathing maiden admired by a peeping tom behind bulrushes after the engraving Le fleuve Scamandre by N. de Larmessin, after F. Boucher, the gold hinged mounts with diaper-pattern band and a wavy thumbpiece (scratches to the exterior scenes, wear to the underside and edge of the base)
10.1 cm. wide

Provenance

Collection Pierre de Regaini, Paris.
Collection Mr. C.W. Harris, Isle of Man.
The present owner.

Literature

L. Delplace, Considérations sur les Porcelaines de Tournai, Bruxelles, 1970, p. 69 ill. 20.
B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures Européennes au 18ième siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p.561 no. 522.

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Lot Essay

The differentiated decoration of landscapes and figures on the exterior of the snuff-box reminds of decoration by Michel (Henri Joseph) Duvivier, master painter and artistic manager of the manufactory from 1763 to 1771. A service with harbour scenes in purple camaïeu, partly signed by him, shows richly decorated landscapes with harbour architecture, ships and ruins, which are also characteristic for this snuff-box, see Christiane Deroubaix, Les porcelaines de Tournai au musée de Mariemont, Bruxelles, 1958, colour pl.4, ill.229 and pl.24, ill.231.

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