A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED TURQUOISE-GROUND JAGD DOSE (HUNTING SNUFF-BOX) with huntsmen in extensive mountainous landscapes, with trees and buildings, the cover with a boar hunt and the front and back of the box with a stag hunt all in gilt line quatrefoil cartouches, the underside of the base with huntsmen with rifles on foot with a dog, the inside of the cover with a similar scene with a stag in the foreground and distant mounted huntsmen before cliffs and among pine trees in a quatrefoil cartouche on a gilt ground, the inside of the base richly gilt (slight chip to inside of cover, slight scratches to gilding and very minor rubbing to gilding on cover at the top of the cartouche), the contemporary gold mount with chased and engraved flowers and scrolls, circa 1740 6cm. wide
A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED TURQUOISE-GROUND JAGD DOSE (HUNTING SNUFF-BOX) with huntsmen in extensive mountainous landscapes, with trees and buildings, the cover with a boar hunt and the front and back of the box with a stag hunt all in gilt line quatrefoil cartouches, the underside of the base with huntsmen with rifles on foot with a dog, the inside of the cover with a similar scene with a stag in the foreground and distant mounted huntsmen before cliffs and among pine trees in a quatrefoil cartouche on a gilt ground, the inside of the base richly gilt (slight chip to inside of cover, slight scratches to gilding and very minor rubbing to gilding on cover at the top of the cartouche), the contemporary gold mount with chased and engraved flowers and scrolls, circa 1740 6cm. wide
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