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Lot 1132 Dα

A Meissen porcelain snuff box designed as a fruit basket

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain snuff box designed as a fruit basket

Vermeil-mounted tobacco box, the upper part forming the lid. Designed as a basket brimming with apples, peaches and grapes. Unmarked. H 7 cm.
Marks of Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1737.

Provenance

Private collection Westphalia.

Literature

Cf. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Fribourg/Munich 1985, cat. no. 188.
A further example sold in Lempertz Cologne auction 1184, 19th November 2021, lot 1125.
Cf. also Victoria and Albert Museum London, acc. no. 939-1882.
For Kaendler's records see Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 46: "Eine Tabattiere gefertiget in gestalt einer Wein oder Wintzer Putte".