CIRCA 1745

Details

A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN RAT-FORM SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1745
Modeled resting on an oval yellow cushion painted with flower sprays, the cover's exterior with deutscheBlumen, the interior with a scene of rats scampering among large eggs, the interior of the box gilt
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired from S.J. Phillips, London, 2000.

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Lot Essay

Another box of this form, its interior showing an anthropomorphic cat with dozens of rat traps slung over its shoulder, was in the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection and is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 1982.60.357).

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