A LUDWIGSBURG GILT-METAL MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1765, THE MOUNT PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Painted in puce camaïeu vignettes in gilt-scroll cartouches, the cover with a couple seated on a shore before boats and buildings in a river landscape, the sides with four lesser vignettes of travellers and boats, the underside with boats moored at a quay by classical ruins, the interior of the cover with merchants on a shore before a walled town (slight scratching to edge of base)
3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) wide overall
A LUDWIGSBURG GILT-METAL MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1765, THE MOUNT PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Painted in puce camaïeu vignettes in gilt-scroll cartouches, the cover with a couple seated on a shore before boats and buildings in a river landscape, the sides with four lesser vignettes of travellers and boats, the underside with boats moored at a quay by classical ruins, the interior of the cover with merchants on a shore before a walled town (slight scratching to edge of base)
3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) wide overall
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