An Important American Family Collection
A magnificent jewelled gold and pietra dura 'Steinkabinett' box, Johann Christian Neuber, Dresden, circa 1765
Lot Closed
May 13, 10:17 AM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 250,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
oval, all sides inlaid in Zellenmosaik with 92 scale-shaped hardstone specimens, each with a small number engraved above on a silver ground for an identification of the hardstone, the lid centred with an oval en grisaille enamel plaque of Minerva visiting the muses, based on an engraving after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen (1720-1778), within a rose-cut diamond-set frame, the outer border formed of fifteen semi-precious stones, among them garnet, amethyst, rock-crystal, citrine, carnelian, as well as a pearl, interspersed with inlaid carnelian and bloodstone bands and forget-me-nots flanked by levelled simulated pearls, the base with a similar outer border and centred with an oval Meissen porcelain plaque representing the Meissen porcelain factory in the Albrechtsburg, apparently unmarked
8.7 cm, 3 3/8 in. wide
Neuburg collection, circa 1935
Verry collection, London, circa 1939
According to Berry-Hill, part of the collections of King Farouk of Egypt (1953); the box does not feature in the 1954 sale catalogue
Walter Holzhausen, Johann Christian Neuber, Dresden, 1935, no. 8
Henry and Sidney Berry-Hill, Antique Gold Boxes, their Lore and their Lure, New York, 1953, p. 131, nos 112-13
Alexis Kugel, Gold, Jasper and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court, London, 2012, cat.
no. 150, p. 362
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