A German porcelain rectangular snuff box with gilt-metal mount, possibly Kloster Veilsdorf or Berlin, circa 1770
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description
finely painted with figures and a peacock in formal gardens, the cover painted with figures playing music accompanied by a putto, within scroll cartouches moulded in low relief, the interior of the cover painted with a shepherd and shepherdess observed by an onlooker, the interior of the box gilt
Width 8.7 cm; 3 ⅜ in
A snuff box painted with the same scene to the interior, in a very similar palette, was sold at Sotheby’s, Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 347, and another from the Property of a California Private Collector, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 31 October 1981, lot 167.
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