Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A Continental porcelain gold-mounted snuff box in Meissen style, nineteenth century
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May 16, 02:15 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 CHF
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Description
triangular, the lid, sides and interior painted with chinoiserie figures engaged in various amusing pursuits above an iron-red double-line and gilt border, the base with a spray of indianische Blumen, the interior base gilt, partially illegible later control mark on rim,
8.8 cm; 3 ½ in. wide
J. J. Klejman Gallery, New York (bought for $675)
Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, Baltimore, sold at Replica Shoes ’s New York, September 26, 1989, lot 124
Triangular form snuff-boxes may have been in production at the Meissen factory by 1741, as the inventories apparently note that Johann Joachim Kändler had developed the shape specifically for the use of Masonic-themed boxes. One such triangular box is illustrated in Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p. 194, cat. no. 116. The form had a surge in popularity in the latter part of the 19th century and was produced outside of the Meissen workshops. A similar example painted with chinoiseries from the Helmut Joseph Collection is illustrated in Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Collection of 18th Century Porcelain Boxes, exh. cat., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1988, p. 30, cat. no. 10.
Cranfield University used non-invasive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was detected, a result consistent with later manufacture
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