Lot 72
72
A GILT-METAL MOUNTED FÜRSTENBURG SHELL-SHAPED SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
A MEISSEN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN 'ANCIEN' FROM THE DUKE OF WEISSENFELS SERIES AND OF COLUMBINE
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A GILT-METAL MOUNTED FÜRSTENBURG SHELL-SHAPED SNUFF-BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1760

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A GILT-METAL MOUNTED FÜRSTENBURG SHELL-SHAPED SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1760
The rocaille exterior reserved with Purpurmalerie vignettes in the manner of Johann Friedrich Metzsch, the cover interior finely painted and stippled with a Commedia dell'Arte scene, the interior of the box gilt
3½ in. (8.8 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

See B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18.Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1985, p. 294, no. 243 for an example with an identically molded box and also painted in Purpurmalerie, the cover a variant molded rocaille design; also p. 167, no. 123 for a Meissen rectangular box, its interior painted with the same Commedia dell'Arte scene.

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