A GERMAN PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
PROPERTY OF LORD AND LADY HAMBLEDEN
A GERMAN PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1760-70, PERHAPS FÜRSTENBERG

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A GERMAN PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1760-70, PERHAPS FÜRSTENBERG
Painted with couples in garden landscapes, within scroll-moulded puce and ochre cartouches and moulded flower-sprays, the interior of the cover with a seated lady wearing a pink lace dress playing the lute and a male companion reading from sheet music, before a balustrade supporting an urn of flowers within a garden landscape (three very small chips to edge of base)
3.3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) wide overall

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With a manuscript note inscribed in ink: 'Oval Gold mounted Dresden box, painted Watteau subjects outside, with Louis 15th & Madame de Pompadour inside from the picture at Versailles.'

See the similar Fürstenberg snuff-box illustrated by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des manufactures européennes au 18e<\sup> siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 307.

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