Five French porcelain snuff boxes or bonbonnières, Mennecy and Saint-Cloud, with silver-mounts, circa 1750-60
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Description
comprising:
a Saint-Cloud snuff box in the form of a seated pagoda figure, the robe moulded in low relief with flowering plants and a small winged insect, the hinged cover painted on both sides with stylized chinoiserie figures in a garden, the interior with two small insects and a leaf, the mount with Paris discharge mark for 1750-56, date letter K for 1750, maker’s mark Dd (?);
and four Mennecy snuff boxes in the form of:
a reclining shepherd with hound, the mount with Paris discharge mark for 1750-56 and other unclear Paris marks;
a pug dog, the mount with Paris discharge mark for 1762-68;
a swan, the mount with discharge mark apparently a tête de chérubin for 1780-89;
and a dromedary camel, the mount unmarked but with a 19th century control mark,
their hinged covers moulded in low relief with small flower sprigs
Length of largest 2 ⅝ in; 6,7 cm
Pagoda figure:
Jansen, Paris;
The Collection of Mrs. H. Dupay, New York, Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 3 April 1948, lot 227 (for $150);
Mrs Russell S. Carter (d. 1964) Collection, New York, no. 860;
Property from the Estate of Elizabeth Halsey Dock, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1993, lot 79;
Acquired at the above sale.
Reclining shepherd:
James A. Lewis, New York, bearing paper label;
Mrs Russell S. Carter (d. 1964) Collection, New York, bearing paper label inscribed no. 864;
Property from the Estate of Elizabeth Halsey Dock, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1993, lot 85;
Acquired at the above sale.
Pug dog:
Karrick Van Zandt Riggs (1853-1935) Collection, New York;
by descent to his daughter, Pauline Riggs Noyes (1886-1942) New York;
Property from the Estate of the Late Pauline Riggs Noyes, Collected by Her Father, the Late Karrick Riggs, Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 7 February 1947, lot 19;
Mrs Russell S. Carter (d. 1964) Collection, New York, bearing paper label inscribed no. 818;
Property from the Estate of Elizabeth Halsey Dock, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1993, lot 80;
Acquired at the above sale.
Swan:
Mrs Russell S. Carter (d. 1964) Collection, New York, bearing paper label inscribed no. 840;
Property from the Estate of Elizabeth Halsey Dock, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1993, lot 84;
Acquired at the above sale.
Dromedary camel:
Mrs Russell S. Carter (d. 1964) Collection, New York;
Property from the Estate of Elizabeth Halsey Dock, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1993, lot 81;
Acquired at the above sale.
An identical camel bonbonnière with a Paris discharge mark for 1756-62 is illustrated in B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, Fribourg, 1985, p. 479, cat. no. 424. A further example of the swan model, in the white, was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 15 October 1996, lot 16.
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