Two Berlin porcelain snuff boxes, with gilt- metal mounts, circa 1770
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description
each of bombé form, the first, moulded in low-relief with diaper panels and flowerheads picked out in blue and yellow, and rocaille scroll cartouches reserving scenes of figures in landscapes, the interior lid finely painted with a landscape of figures beside a river gesturing towards a large schloss on the opposite bank;
the second painted with green diaper panels edged with puce scrolls, the exterior lid in purple camaïeu with Watteauesque figures, the interior lid painted in colours with two gentleman drinking at a table, the underside with a panel of flowers, sceptre marks in underglaze-blue to interior of both
Widths 9 cm; 3 ½ in
The puce-decorated example:
Antiquitäten Metz, Heidelberg, 19 May 2018, lot 955.
The moulded example:
Audap & Mirabaud, 19 May 2014, lot 103.
A further example with moulded basketwork was formerly in the collection of Madame Jacques Balsan, née Consuelo Vanderbilt and previously Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1877–1964); it was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 9 May 1973, lot 264, and again in an anonymous sale at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1 December 1977, lot 291.
