A gold-mounted hardstone and laque burgauté snuff box, circle of Johann Martin Heinrici, Dresden, circa 1760
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
oval, all sides of the quartz box decorated with laque burgauté and piqué coulé gold and silver landscapes, pagodas, exotic flowers, birds and butterflies, the gold mounts engraved with a lozenge pattern and applied with a silver floral thumbpiece, apparently unmarked,
8,5 cm; 3¼ in. wide
overall weight 140 gr, 4,50 oz
Since Heinrici's name is the only one known to have been
associated with this type of European laque burgauté, he
has long been credited with all such decoration whether
on porcelain, hardstone, metal or wood, much in the
same way that in the nineteenth century all English
enamels were attributed to the Battersea factory.
Certainly, a number of objects decorated in this technique
appear to share the same commercially-available metal
paillons as well as design sources. It seems probable,
therefore, that one or more of Heinrici's pupils was
responsible for developing the technique on surfaces
other than porcelain.
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