Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A Meissen (K.P.M.) porcelain gold-mounted snuff box, circa 1725-30
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May 16, 02:10 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 CHF
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Description
oval bombé form, the lid painted with chinoiserie figures at various pursuits above supports in Böttger-lustre and gilding, the lid interior and the sides with similar scenes and each end with indianische Blumen, the base with pink and purple indianische Blumen on a green diaper-pattern ground, the rose-gold mounts with chased scallop pattern, blue crossed swords and K.P.M. mark in underglaze-blue to interior,
6.4 cm; 2 ½ in. wide
Christie’s Geneva, 13 May 1985, lot 191
Cranfield University used non-invasive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected, a result consistent with eighteenth century manufacture.
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