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A gold-mounted Meissen yellow-ground snuff box circa 1745-50
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- 7.3cm., 2 7/8 in. across
of cartouche shape, the cover and sides each reserved with a gilt-edged quatrelobe cartouche painted with elegant figures in landscape settings, the base with a similar scene including a man with a small child wearing a harness, the cover with a formal gilt border enclosing the yellow ground and the back of the box with two panels of gilt foliate scrollwork flaking the panel