A GERMAN BOOK-FORM CABINET OF LITHOLOGY, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER OF DRESDEN, CIRCA 1790 |

three trays each with rows of eighteen polished oval convex hardstones, widely varied, richly colored and striated, some translucent, numbered in black ink and with pink ribbon pulls, the trays lined in buff baize and fitted in a brown leather book-form case, the spine with gilt-tooled classical foliage and entitled “Cabinet de Lithologie” above A, marbleized interior and ends, totaling 52 specimens, missing ring and booklet

stones and trays good, book binding splitting at edges and scuffed, stains to inner lining. As noted missing ring and booklet, but all stones present and sequentially numbered.
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Several workshops both in Dresden and Augsburg produced “Schmuckstein-Kabinetts”. A stone could be selected and fitted into the accompanying ring, chosen at whim or to match a clothing ensemble. The stones, often from Saxony, but also from abroad, were identified in the booklet provided. This set is close to numbers RK7-RK II, all attributed to Neuber, in Gold, Jasper and Carnelian, Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court, ed. Alexis Kugel, catalogue raisonné of Neuber’s oeuvre, pp. 381-382. The present lot is closest to RK10, showing similar turquoise-edged trays, marbleizing, and book binding.