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Lot Essay
In March 1744 Kändler’s work report records: Eine Tabattjere in gestalt einer Indianischen Fügur nach geholffen und zum abformen befördert [one snuff-box in the form of an Indian figure, modeled and prepared for molding](1). Given that a Meissen snuff-box in the form of an Indian is not known, and that all things exotic were referred to as ‘Indian’ at the time, it has been suggested that this relates to a box modeled in the form of a Turk(2). Given the similarity of the modeling and pose of the Turk snuff-box to the present form of box, the present form of box may also have been modeled by Kändler.
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, ibid., 1985, p. 229, notes that snuff-boxes of a similar form were also made at Chantilly in France. The author suggested that they are most probably copying the Meissen boxes, rather than vice versa, given the superiority and clarity of the modeling of the Meissen boxes. The mounts on one such Chantilly box bears a Parisian poinçon in use between 1738 and 1744, suggesting a terminus ante quem of 1744 for the Chantilly boxes.
1. Cited by Ulrich Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Leipzig, 2002, p. 102.
2. Beaucamp-Markowsky, ibid., 228 and p. 230, no. 183, illustrates the present snuff-box alongside a Meissen snuff-box in the form of a Turk, whose pose is very similar to the present box, suggesting that he is also sitting on a chamber pot, although his behind and the pot are not visible, as they are on the present box.
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, ibid., 1985, p. 229, notes that snuff-boxes of a similar form were also made at Chantilly in France. The author suggested that they are most probably copying the Meissen boxes, rather than vice versa, given the superiority and clarity of the modeling of the Meissen boxes. The mounts on one such Chantilly box bears a Parisian poinçon in use between 1738 and 1744, suggesting a terminus ante quem of 1744 for the Chantilly boxes.
1. Cited by Ulrich Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Leipzig, 2002, p. 102.
2. Beaucamp-Markowsky, ibid., 228 and p. 230, no. 183, illustrates the present snuff-box alongside a Meissen snuff-box in the form of a Turk, whose pose is very similar to the present box, suggesting that he is also sitting on a chamber pot, although his behind and the pot are not visible, as they are on the present box.