An Italian gilt copper mounted porcelain snuff box. - image-1
An Italian gilt copper mounted porcelain snuff box. - image-2
An Italian gilt copper mounted porcelain snuff box. - image-1An Italian gilt copper mounted porcelain snuff box. - image-2

Lot 650 Dα

An Italian gilt copper mounted porcelain snuff box.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 17:00 - Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 6.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)

An Italian gilt copper mounted porcelain snuff box.

With a finely painted depiction of Artemisia with the urn to the lid. Unmarked. 4 x 6.2 x 4.8 cm.
Possibly Capodimonte, mid 18th C.

Literature

Illus. in: I quaderni dell´emil ceramica, no. 1/1984. The motif is here interpreted as Cleopatra.