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A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
Lot 64THE PROPERTY OF THE BLAIR CHARITABLE TRUST, REMOVED FROM BLAIR CASTLE, BLAIR ATHOLL, SCOTLAND

A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX

CIRCA 1737, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY

Fermé3 June 2015

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GBP 92,500

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A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1737, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Of fluted tapering pannier form, each side painted with chinoiserie figures at various pursuits, on gilt scrollwork supports enclosing oval Purpurmalerei panels of merchants in harbour scenes, below a Gitterwerk border, the interior of the hinged cover similarly decorated, the box interior richly-gilt (small restuck chip to top of cover, slight wear to gilding)
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high overall

Note du spécialiste

In May 1737 Kändler recorded '4.Eine Tabattiere gefertget in gestalt einer Wein oder Winter Putte' ('4.Completed a snuff-box in the form of a wine or winegrower's barrel'), see Michael Röbbig-Reyes, (ed.,) Sarah-Katherina Acevedo et al., Meissen Snuff Boxes of the Eighteenth Century, Munich, 2013, pp.144-145, cat. no. 17 for a discussion of this form and illustration of a similar chinoiserie snuff-box. A similar chinoiserie snuff-box from the Property from the Estate of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard was sold by Christie's New York on 18 March 2005, lot 39 and the shape is illustrated by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 104, no. 72.