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Auction archive: Lot number 10

A Meissen porcelain yellow-ground snuff-box with gold mounts, circa 1740

Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$19,984 - US$26,645
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 10

A Meissen porcelain yellow-ground snuff-box with gold mounts, circa 1740

Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$19,984 - US$26,645
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

A Meissen porcelain yellow-ground snuff-box with gold mounts, circa 1740 of upright cartouche form, painted with Venetian views after Melchior Küsel within black-line gilt quatrefoil cartouches, the body with four plain moulded bands gilt with diaper pattern, richly gilt to the interior, the slightly domed cover with similar decoration and a view of a further waterside palazzo to the interior, the base painted to simulate basketwork in purple and iron-red reserved with indianische Blumen, within a narrow shagreen-pattern border, the gold mounts with scroll thumbpiece, incised inventory number to the border of the interior of the cover6.5 cm., 2 1/2 in. wide

Auction archive: Lot number 10
Auction:
Datum:
10 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

A Meissen porcelain yellow-ground snuff-box with gold mounts, circa 1740 of upright cartouche form, painted with Venetian views after Melchior Küsel within black-line gilt quatrefoil cartouches, the body with four plain moulded bands gilt with diaper pattern, richly gilt to the interior, the slightly domed cover with similar decoration and a view of a further waterside palazzo to the interior, the base painted to simulate basketwork in purple and iron-red reserved with indianische Blumen, within a narrow shagreen-pattern border, the gold mounts with scroll thumbpiece, incised inventory number to the border of the interior of the cover6.5 cm., 2 1/2 in. wide

Auction archive: Lot number 10
Auction:
Datum:
10 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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