Lot 19
A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted snuff box, circa 1737-40
Amended
5 July 2011, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £25,000
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A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted snuff box, circa 1737-40
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, of trefoil form moulded with three cartouches enclosing a shell with pendant flowers and flanked by swags, the cover with a raised trefoil panel moulded with floral swags enclosing an oval medallion with a bust portrait of Augustus III facing sinister, the base with a moulded border painted with a yellow seeded ground edged with petals, moulded on the underside with a trefoil cartouche with a bust portrait of a man facing sinister, hung with a floral swag and surmounted by a shell with swags, the inside cover painted with a Venetian view of palaces and gondolas, box interior gilt, 6.2cm across, 4.8cm high (cover restored)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1338
Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 147;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 44;
Cassidy-Geiger 2007, fig. 1-31, cat. no. 11
Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
New York, The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63, 15 November 2007 to 10 February 2008, no. 11;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010
Kändler's work records fpr May 1737 record: '1 sehr mühsame Tabattiere gefertgt mit antiken flachen Zierrathen, auf dem Deckel ist Ihro Majt. des Königs Portrait klein und flach befindlich, auf dem Boden aber ein altes römisches Köpfgen' [1 very laborious snuff box completed with antique flat decoration, on the cover there is a small and flat portrait of His Majesty the King, but on the base an old Roman head].
Saleroom notices
Please note that the estimate for this lot is £4000-6000 and not £15,000-£25,000 as mentioned in the online catalogue. The printed catalogue states the correct estimate.
