Lot 1098
  • 1098

A Berlin porcelain snuff box circa 1760

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 EUR
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Description

  • marked inside right in underglaze blue for KPM
  • 10 by 7.5 by 4.5cm.
the bronze mounted lid showing two ducks and a swan on a lake, the inner lid painted with three pheasants; the four outsides and bottom decorated with fruit, flowers and small insects; the cover possibly associated and later 

Condition

some rubbing to gilt, minor glazewear, overall in good condition
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