AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX
CAPODIMONTE, CIRCA 1755
AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX CAPODIMONTE, CIRCA 1755 oval box, painted in the manner of Giovanni Caselli with a continuous frieze of travellers and harvesters in a landscape, the underside with a figure holding a basket of fruit kneeling before a maiden, the cover with merchants in conversation at a quayside and two women before an encampment outside a town wall, the hinged gold mount with a three-colour thumbpiece formed as flowers issuing husks 3¼ in. (80 mm.) wide
AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX
CAPODIMONTE, CIRCA 1755
AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX CAPODIMONTE, CIRCA 1755 oval box, painted in the manner of Giovanni Caselli with a continuous frieze of travellers and harvesters in a landscape, the underside with a figure holding a basket of fruit kneeling before a maiden, the cover with merchants in conversation at a quayside and two women before an encampment outside a town wall, the hinged gold mount with a three-colour thumbpiece formed as flowers issuing husks 3¼ in. (80 mm.) wide
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