AN ITALIAN GILT-METAL MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX
AN ITALIAN GILT-METAL MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX

DOCCIA, GINORI FACTORY, CIRCA 1750

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AN ITALIAN GILT-METAL MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX
Doccia, Ginori factory, circa 1750
Cartouche-shaped porcelain box, the cover painted and moulded with a high relief scene of Callisto before Diana with her bathing attendants, within a gold painted frame, the inside of the cover painted with a polychrome lakeside landscape, the base and curved sides painted with scattered bunches of flowers and insects, the reeded gilt-metal mounts with slightly raised thumbpiece
84 mm. (3.1/4 in.) wide

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