A four-colour gold and enamel snuff box, Austrian or German, circa 1765
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May 26, 12:34 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A four-colour gold and enamel snuff box
Austrian or German, circa 1765
rectangular, the enamels attributed to P.E. Schindler, the lid, base and interior of the lid painted with domestic interiors, applied varicoloured gold floral thumbpiece, the sides engraved with scrolls enclosing diaper, apparently unmarked
7.5cm., 3in. wide
Philip Ernst Schindler (1723-1793) was the son of a porcelain painter at Meissen where he himself worked in his twenties. Following complaints that he decorated enamels from Johann Georg Herold, the director of painting, on his own account he left for Vienna in 1750. There, in 1770, he himself became director of painting at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactury. As well as his official work on porcelain he is known to have decorated a small number of gold boxes for various Viennese and foreign goldsmiths.
