CIRCA 1750-1760

Details

A GOLD-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1750-1760
Finely painted to the exterior with figures in landscapes pointing to distant towns, all within colorful gilt scrollwork entwined with flowers, the interior of the box with a similar scene after Melchior Küsel, gondolas between the figures and the buildings
3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm.) long

Provenance

With S.J. Philips, London.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above in June 1956.

Exhibited

London, Grosvenor House, Antique Dealers Fair, 1956.

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Lot Essay

The palace and quaysides on the left-hand side of the scene of the underside is derived from Melchior Küsel’s engraving Arriva zu Neapoli alla Piazza di Spagna after Johann Wilhelm Baur from Iconographia, published in 1682. Cf. Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Dresden, 2018, vol. 2, p. 46 for an illustration of this print. Compare the very similarly molded example in the Helmet Josph collection, sold Bonhams, London, 5 July 2011, lot 20.

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