A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
A Meissen porcelain snuff box with gold mounts, 19th century
Auction Closed
December 10, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen porcelain snuff box with gold mounts, 19th century
of oval bombé form, painted with hunting scenes of figures hunting deer, wild boar, birds and hare in landscape frieze and vignettes, underglaze blue crossed swords mark to interior of box, the mounts with scrolling foliate thumbpiece
5.2 cm., 2 1/8 in. wide
The collection of Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 14 April 1950, lot 243;
Anonymous vendor, Sotheby's New York, 26 September 1989, lot 126
Anonymous vendor, Sotheby's New York, 26 September 1989, lot 126
Sotheby's Scientific Research Department used non-invasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was detected.