A GERMAN PORCELAIN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX AND COVER LATE 18TH CENTURY Of flattened oval section, each facet painted with maritime vignettes with merchants, cargo, galleons and ships, with fortified buildings on islands, the ends with pendant flowers at the rim, the cover interior with merchants by a river with boating figures and a galleon, a palace beyond, the lower mount bright-cut, the upper hinged mount possibly later and chased with a band of foliage on a hatched ground (very small flake to enamel at lower edge of scene on interior of cover, slight wear to edge of base) 2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm.) wide overall
A GERMAN PORCELAIN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX AND COVER LATE 18TH CENTURY Of flattened oval section, each facet painted with maritime vignettes with merchants, cargo, galleons and ships, with fortified buildings on islands, the ends with pendant flowers at the rim, the cover interior with merchants by a river with boating figures and a galleon, a palace beyond, the lower mount bright-cut, the upper hinged mount possibly later and chased with a band of foliage on a hatched ground (very small flake to enamel at lower edge of scene on interior of cover, slight wear to edge of base) 2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm.) wide overall
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