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

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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A GOLD-MOUNTED GERMAN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY
The elaborate puce diaper ground enriched with gilt crosses and reserved with vignettes of figures in landscapes within garlanded rococo scroll cartouches, the cover interior painted with a bagpiper playing to a shepherdess and her companion
3 1/4 in. (8.1 cm.) wide overall

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Lot Essay

A box with figural scenes enclosed by similar rococo scrolls against a related puce diaper ornament ground is illustrated by Michael Röbbig-Reyes in Sarah-Katharina Acevedo et al., Meissen Snuff Boxes of the Eighteenth Century, Munich, 2013, pp. 266-267, Cat. No. 63, where the painting is attributed to Gottlob Siegmund. A box with a similar scene on the interior of the cover, which must presumably have been taken from the same print source, and with figural scenes on the exterior similarly reserved against a ground of cubes, is illustrated by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 265, no. 213, where it is attributed to Vienna.

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