A Meissen gold-mounted rectangular snuff box circa 1750-60

finely painted on the cover, around the sides of the exterior and on the bottom with figures and distant buildings in various landscapes within scroll-molded cartouches, the interior of the cover painted with a similar scene, with contemporary mounts.

Property from the Estate of Sarah Jane Pansa, Sotheby's New York, November 8, 1985, lot 162

Please note that the porcelain has not been examined beneath the mounts. The visible porcelain is in good condition.
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A similarly decorated Meissen snuff box is illustrated by Carl Christian Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, Vol III, p. 211, no. 40. Another Meissen rectangular gold-mounted snuff box similarly painted with landscape scenes is illustrated by Patricia Brattig, Meissen Barockes Porzellan, p. 236-237, cat no. 104. Also, a Meissen rectangular snuff box similarly molded with scrollwork is illustrated in ibid, p. 240, cat no. 106.