A Vienna (Du Paquier) porcelain snuff box with gold mounts, circa 1735-40 of circular baluster form, painted with hunting scenes, the box with a continuous frieze of equestrian figures in landscape and a house below mobbing birds, the slightly domed cover with falconers within black-line and gilt scroll cartouche, the interior of the cover with a rider and further figures within a circular cartouche below a purple-ground border, the interior of the box richly gilt, the underside with fruit, the mount with scroll thumbpiece5.4cm., 2 1/8 in. diameter
A Vienna (Du Paquier) porcelain snuff box with gold mounts, circa 1735-40 of circular baluster form, painted with hunting scenes, the box with a continuous frieze of equestrian figures in landscape and a house below mobbing birds, the slightly domed cover with falconers within black-line and gilt scroll cartouche, the interior of the cover with a rider and further figures within a circular cartouche below a purple-ground border, the interior of the box richly gilt, the underside with fruit, the mount with scroll thumbpiece5.4cm., 2 1/8 in. diameter
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