A GERMAN PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
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A GERMAN PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1760-64, PERHAPS BERLIN, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY

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A GERMAN PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1760-64, PERHAPS BERLIN, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
Painted with equestrian battle scenes within pink and yellow rocaille-moulded cartouches issuing flower-sprays, with gold shell-moulded thumbpiece (minor chipping to top rim, minute scratching to enamels)
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) wide overall
Provenance
With Asprey and Company Limited, London.

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Lot Essay

For a similarly moulded snuff-box attributed to Berlin see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1984, p. 330, no. 270.

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