Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A MEISSEN ROSE-GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
Lot 74 PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER PRIVATE COLLECTOR

A MEISSEN ROSE-GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1750-55

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 4,000

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A MEISSEN ROSE-GOLD-MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1750-55
Painted with figures in discussion among buildings and wooded river landscapes within moulded scroll and flower cartouches, the interior of the hinged cover with a view of Albrechtsburg with travellers in the foreground, the rose-gold mount chased with meandering foliage, with a gold thumbpiece similarly chased (thumbpiece reattached, minute scratching to glaze at base)
3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) wide

Specialist note

For a rectangular snuff-box with a similar view of Albrechtsburg on the exterior of the cover, and for the related engraving of the same view by Alexander Thiele (1685-1752) dated 1746, see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des Manufactures Européenes au 18e Siècle, Fribourg, 1985, pp. 148-149, no. 111.