Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A Meissen porcelain Royal portrait snuff box, circa 1755, with silver-gilt mounts by James Aldridge, London, 1827
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Description
rectangular, the lid and each side painted with allegorical scenes framed by colourful rocailles heightened in gilding and entwined with floral garlands, the lid interior finely painted with a portrait of King Augustus III of Poland and Elector Frederick of Saxony (1697-1763), possibly by Johann Martin Heinrici after Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), the base interior painted in purple monochrome with a tresllis pattern enclosing AR monograms, silver-gilt mounts chased with rocailles and flowers, fully hallmarked,
8.5 cm; 3 ⅜ in. wide
Maximilian Baron von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940), Rothschild Palais, Bockenheimer Landstraße 10, Frankfurt am Main, until 1938
Museum für Kunsthandwerk (now the Museum Angewandte Kunst), Frankfurt am Main, (inv. no. G.R.1190)
Forcibly sold to the City Council of Frankfurt am main in 1938
Restituted to the heirs of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 1949
Acquired from the Estate of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild by Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York in 1950
sold by the above to Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976), New York, 23 January 1950 (for $400).
Matthias K. Wagner and Katharina Weiler, Die Sammlung von Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Cologne 2023, pp. 622-623, G.R.1190
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