Lot Essay
A box painted in kupfer-grün enriched with black and red enamels with figures in landscapes was sold Christie's, London, 11 December 2000, lot 486.
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MEISSEN, CIRCA 1755
Details
A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX WITH JEWELLED THUMBPIECE
Meissen, circa 1755
Rectangular box with slightly raised lid, each side with scroll-moulded cartouches enclosing landscape vignettes painted in kupfer-grün and black with figures at various pursuits in landscapes, their faces and arms enriched with red, the interior of the cover painted in a full palette with a shepherd playing the bagpipes to two seated shepherdesses in a wooded landscape, the bright-cut gold mount with an emerald and diamond-set foliate silver and gold thumbpiece
3½ in. (89 mm.) wide
Meissen, circa 1755
Rectangular box with slightly raised lid, each side with scroll-moulded cartouches enclosing landscape vignettes painted in kupfer-grün and black with figures at various pursuits in landscapes, their faces and arms enriched with red, the interior of the cover painted in a full palette with a shepherd playing the bagpipes to two seated shepherdesses in a wooded landscape, the bright-cut gold mount with an emerald and diamond-set foliate silver and gold thumbpiece
3½ in. (89 mm.) wide
Provenance
Hohenzollern Museum, Berlin, no. 4024.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 9 May 1983, lot 99.
Anonymous sale; Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, auction 460, 2-21 May 1984, lot 228 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-157).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 9 May 1983, lot 99.
Anonymous sale; Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, auction 460, 2-21 May 1984, lot 228 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-157).
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