A MEISSEN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1730
Of bombé form, painted with harbourside scenes of European and Eastern merchants, turretted buildings and sailing ships within quatrefoil gilt-scroll cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels, each end with a purple bracket and a vignette of figures in landscape, the interior of the cover with a quatrefoil harbourside scene reserved against the richly-gilt ground (restored chip to upper rim of box and rim of cover, wear to gilding)
2 ¾ in. (7.1 cm.) wide
A MEISSEN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1730
Of bombé form, painted with harbourside scenes of European and Eastern merchants, turretted buildings and sailing ships within quatrefoil gilt-scroll cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels, each end with a purple bracket and a vignette of figures in landscape, the interior of the cover with a quatrefoil harbourside scene reserved against the richly-gilt ground (restored chip to upper rim of box and rim of cover, wear to gilding)
2 ¾ in. (7.1 cm.) wide
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