A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
A Meissen porcelain snuff box mounted in gold, circa 1745
Auction Closed
December 10, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen porcelain snuff box mounted in gold, circa 1745
of upright basket form, modelled with trailing garlands on an osier ground, the interior of the lid painted and gilt with cheerful musicians, probably by Philip Ernst Schindler after Watteau, the interior richly gilt, reeded gold mount with shell thumbpiece
6.8 cm., 2 5/8 in. wide
Anonymous, sale Sotheby's, Zürich, 9 December 1997, lot 42