A porcelain snuff box painted with Venus and Cupid - image-1

Lot 1122 Dα

A porcelain snuff box painted with Venus and Cupid

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 1.875 € (incl. premium)
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A porcelain snuff box painted with Venus and Cupid

With gilt copper mountings. Decorated on all faces with naturalistic bouquets. The inside of the lid with a scene of Venus and Cupid on a cloud bank and Neptune in his chariot in the background, presumably based on a motif by Jean-Baptiste Nattier. Unmarked. The lid with a yellowed restoration. H 4.3, W 8, D 6.5 cm.
Attributed to Meissen, mid-18th C.

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

"Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 80.
Cf. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1985, no. 92, for a box with the same motif on the lid in the Porzellansammlung SKD (inv. no. PE 2139)."