A Capodimonte porcelain rose gold-mounted snuff box, circa 1750
Lot Closed
September 26, 12:26 PM GMT
Estimate
2,800 - 3,200 EUR
Lot Details
Description
oval, painted, in the manner of Giovanni Caselli, the lid painted with a Meissen-style quayside scene of merchants before ships, the sides with a continuous scene of rustic travelers and harvesters in a sprawling landscape, the underside with a vignette of a kneeling male figure holding a basket of fruit before a lady, the lid interior with two women before an encampment outside a city wall, the gold mounts chased and with three-colour floral thumbpiece
8 cm, 3 1/8 in. wide
Christie’s, Geneva, 20 November 1970, lot 474;
Connal Wade Harris Esq. Collection, Isle of Man (by 1985);
The Property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 27 June 2005, lot 123;
An Iberian Private Collection, Part I, Christie’s, London, 8 December 2011, lot 18.
B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 533, cat. no. 488.
The scene on the interior of the box likely depicts an episode from the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, with Judith standing before Holoferne’s encampment. The same image source was used for the cover of a remarkable Capodimonte snuff box, attributed to Giovanni Caselli, in the Duca di Martina Collection, which also depicts on the interior Judith holding Holoferne’s severed head, illustrated in Beaucamp-Markowsky, ibid., p. 532, cat. no. 487.
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