Fine Meissen Snuff Box
Rectangular shape, arched cover. Fine gold-mounted with a floral relief.
The snuff box with a fine rococo relief to each side, as well as on the cover. The sides are decorated with a purple scall mosaic. To each side and on the cover a fine flower-bouquet decoration, inside the cover a couple, wearing elegant clothes making music in a park landscape with vegetation and mountains, in the manner of Antoine Watteau.
Meissen abt. 1750
Height: 4,8 cm, Width: 9,1 cm, Depth: 7,3 cm
Literature: A similar piece is illustrated in „Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts“, Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Page 122, No. 91.
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