Lot 530
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A GOLD AND SILVER MOUNTED GEM-SET GERMAN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
A GOLD AND SILVER MOUNTED GEM-SET GERMAN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
A GOLD AND SILVER MOUNTED GEM-SET GERMAN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
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A GOLD AND SILVER MOUNTED GEM-SET GERMAN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
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A GOLD AND SILVER MOUNTED GEM-SET GERMAN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER

POSSIBLY 1770, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY FÜRSTENBERG

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A GOLD AND SILVER MOUNTED GEM-SET GERMAN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
POSSIBLY 1770, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY FÜRSTENBERG
Finely painted with figures at leisure pursuits in gardens in the manner of Watteau, including playing with racquets and making music, the painted scrolling trellis enclosing the scene on the top embellished with scrolls of silver-mounted rubies
3 3⁄8 in. (8.6 cm.) long
Provenance
The State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad.
Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 6 November 1928, lot 248.
A. S. Drey, Munich.
Paul Graupe & Co., Berlin, 17-18 June 1936, lot 421, (involuntary liquidation of the assets of the A. S. Drey dealership).
The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Property of the Descendents of S. Drey, Munich; Sotheby’s, New York, 23 November 2009, lot 3.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.
Literature
Katharine Baetjer, et al., The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984, p. 302, no. 258.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982-2009.

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Lot Essay

Compare the decoration with the box from the Helmut Joseph Collection illustrated by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 290 and p. 313, no. 257, which was subsequently sold from the Helmut Joseph Collection by Bonhams, London, on 5 July 2011, lot 29.

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