Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A Meissen porcelain documentary snuff box with later English gold mounts, circa 1742
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circular, in commemoration of the first Silesian War, the lid probably depicting Frederick the Great seated on horseback commanding his troops in the siege of the city of Neisse, the exterior painted with a continuous battle scene above four oval panels of camp scenes painted en camaïeu rose against a gilt scrollwork band, the base painted with another scene of a victorious Frederick and his fellow soldiers on horseback with the town of Neisse ablaze in the background, the lid interior finely painted with Athena representing Prussia surrounded by allegorical ladies in waiting representing the Arts by Johann Jacob Wagner, Arithmetic holding a stone tablet bearing the sum totalling 1741 above the signature J. Wagner, the interior of the base gilt, with reeded gold mounts and thumbpiece engraved with flowers and foliage,
8.2 cm; 3 1/4 in. diameter
By repute, presented by Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King in Prussia to John Carmichael (1701-1767), 3rd Earl of Hyndford, on 29 August 1742
George Hibbert, Esq., sold, Christie’s London, 27 March 1868, lot 157 (where acquired by W. J. Lloyd for £54. 12 shillings)
W.J. Lloyd Esq.
By descent to David Lloyd Esq. (great-grandson of the above W.J. Lloyd) sold, Christie’s London, 2 December 1974, lot 218
Lovice Ullein-Reviczky
Christie’s Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 109
Geneva, 14-30 November 1978, Exposition de Prestigieux et Rares Objets de Vertu et Porcelaines Européennes du 18e Siècle, catalogue no.82
St. Moritz, Le Salon de Porcelaine, Palace Hotel, 6-11 February 1979, illustrated in the catalogue, no.123
Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain in Colour, New York 1979, pp. 93-95
Journal de Geneve, 21 November 1978 ‘Tabatière Royale,’ illustrated in a full page article by Roger d’Ivernois
Exposition de Prestigieux et Rares Objets de Vertu et Porcelaines Européennes du 18e Siècle, Collection de Madame Lovice Ullein-Reviczky, exh. cat., Geneva, 14-30 November 1978, cover
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg 1985, p.137, cited
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Collection of 18th Century Porcelain Boxes, exh. cat., Amsterdam 1988, p.54, cited.
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