拍品專文
The subject is probably the story of Judith and Holofernes, which also occurs on the square box in the Floridiana, Naples, illustrated by Beaucamp-Markowsky, op. cit., p. 532, no. 487.
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CAPODIMONTE, CIRCA 1755
細節
AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX
CAPODIMONTE, CIRCA 1755
oval box, painted in the manner of Giovanni Caselli with a continuous frieze of travellers and harvesters in a landscape, the underside with a figure holding a basket of fruit kneeling before a maiden, the cover with merchants in conversation at a quayside and two women before an encampment outside a town wall, the hinged gold mount with a three-colour thumbpiece formed as flowers issuing husks
3¼ in. (80 mm.) wide
CAPODIMONTE, CIRCA 1755
oval box, painted in the manner of Giovanni Caselli with a continuous frieze of travellers and harvesters in a landscape, the underside with a figure holding a basket of fruit kneeling before a maiden, the cover with merchants in conversation at a quayside and two women before an encampment outside a town wall, the hinged gold mount with a three-colour thumbpiece formed as flowers issuing husks
3¼ in. (80 mm.) wide
來源
Christie's, Geneva, 20 November 1970, lot 474.
C. W. Harris Collection; Christie's, London, 27 June 2005, lot 123.
C. W. Harris Collection; Christie's, London, 27 June 2005, lot 123.
出版
B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, Fribourg, 1985, p. 533, no. 488.
榮譽呈獻
Amelia Anderson