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A Doccia rectangular snuff box circa 1750-60
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- old inventory sticker 'H.E.B.H., Capo di Monte'
- 7cm., 2 ¾in. wide
the cover decorated in basso relievo istoriato with Chronos and two putti holding a cracked shield, surrounded by moulded cartouches of profile portrait busts, each with a ribbon picked out in puce containing initials in iron red, the base painted with Leda and the swan, the inside cover painted with a couple in a landscape, contemporary gilt-metal mounts
Catalogue Note
A similar snuff box in the Museo Nazionale della Ceramica, Naples, is illustrated by B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18.Jahrhunderts, p.510.