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A porcelain snuff box with elegant couples and a depiction of Venus

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 7.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 8.820 € (incl. premium)
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A porcelain snuff box with elegant couples and a depiction of Venus

Box with gilt copper mountings, decorated with courtly couples in the style of Watteau in six rocaille reserves on a blue mosaic pattern ground. The inside of the lid painted with a scene from Ovid, presumably Diana and Callisto. Unmarked. Restored breakages to the left side and lid. H 5.5, W 8.7, D 6.8 cm.
Attributed to Meissen, mid-18th C.

Provenance

German private collection.

Literature

Cf. a snuff box with a similar mythological depiction in Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Fribourg/Munich 1985, cat. no. 102; a snuff box with the same mosaic ground ibid. no. 86.