A large gilt copper mounted Berlin porcelain snuff box. - image-1

Lot 1051 Dα

A large gilt copper mounted Berlin porcelain snuff box.

Auction 1056 - overview Cologne
13.11.2015, 14:30 - Porcelain, Ceramics, Furniture, Bronzes, Carpets
Estimate: 1.800 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.356 € (incl. premium)

A large gilt copper mounted Berlin porcelain snuff box.

A large gilt copper mounted Berlin porcelain snuff box. Decorated throughout with gilt rocaille reliefs and scale pattern and with a finely painted courtship scene to the lid. The corners of the lid restored. H 4.5, L 9, W 6.8 cm.
Presumably still Gotzkowsky manufactory, ca. 1763.

Literature

Cf. the same scale pattern decor on a service from the transition period in: Baer, Berlin 1986, cat. 124 - 128. Here as illus. 42, and a further snuff box with white rocailles on mosaic pattern ground.