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Lot 1100 Dα

A Meissen porcelain snuff box with pseudo-meander relief and allegorical motifs

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 11.340 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain snuff box with pseudo-meander relief and allegorical motifs

Gilt copper mounted snuff box, the outer surface decorated with so-called "celtic key pattern". Inside of the lid with putti by a river as an allegory of water. Unmarked. Restored over breakages. H 5.7, D 9.2 cm.
C. 1770.

Provenance

German private collection.

Literature

Cf. a box with almost identical decor in the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 1982.60.336).
A further identical snuff box illus. in Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Fribourg/Munich 1985, cat. no. 175.