Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED CIRCULAR SNUFF-BOX
Lot 44

A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED CIRCULAR SNUFF-BOX

CIRCA 1745, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 11,250

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A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED CIRCULAR SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1745, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Painted with a continuous battle scene with infantrymen and soldiers on horseback above a gilt diaper-pattern border reserved with flowerheads and four oval cartouches painted in purple with encampments, the underside with a bouquet of flowers, the cover with a scene of Eastern and European soldiers on horseback, with a richly-gilt interior, the mounts chased with flowers and scrollwork (slight wear to gilding and underside of base)
3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

A shaped rectangular stand, belonging to a casket, painted in puce with a very similar battle scene was sold at Christie's in Geneva on 13 May 1985, lot 154. A documentary Meissen snuff-box, signed by J.J. Wagner, of the same form as the present lot and with similar oval cartouches to the lower body, painted in camaïeu rose with battle scenes, was sold at Christie's in Geneva on 8 May 1989, lot 109; painted in a similar hand to the present snuff-box it commemorated the First Silesian War with a scene of Frederick the Great directing his troops in the attack on Neisse.