PROBABLY DRESDEN, CIRCA 1745/1750

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A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY DRESDEN, CIRCA 1745/1750
realistically carved as a crouching dog from pudding-stone, with gold-mounted diamond and ruby-set eyes, nose and teeth with an articulated gold tongue, the base with a pudding-stone plaque mounted à jour within reeded gold mounts

3½ in. (90 mm.) wide

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Lot Essay

For a similar example see Christie's, Geneva, 11 November 1986, lot 443. Further examples of this type of animal hardstone carving are in the Louvre, see S. Grandjean, Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, nos. 444 and 445 and in the Hermitage, see A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Woodbridge, 1990, pls. 608, 609, 610 and 643.

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