A rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted tobacco pot, circa 1750-60 image 1

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A rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted tobacco pot, circa 1750-60 image 3

A rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted tobacco pot, circa 1750-60 image 4

Lot 17

A rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted tobacco pot, circa 1750-60

The Helmut Joseph Collection of Important Snuff Boxes

5 July 2011, 10:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £16,800 inc. premium

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A rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted tobacco pot, circa 1750-60

Finely painted with three landscape vignettes depicting animals fighting, the base with a similar scene, the cover with wolves attacking a deer and the inside cover with a bear fighting two hounds, the silver-gilt mount with a cord-like rim, 8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1026

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 135;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 40;

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

The bear hunt on the inside cover is based upon an engraving of 1746 by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) inscribed 'Anno 1720. Have drawn the bear hunt according to nature'.

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