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5 juillet 2011

A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted snuff box with portrait of the Electress Elisabeth Auguste of the Palatinate, circa 1746-47

A documentary Meissen silver-gilt-mounted snuff box with portrait of the Electress Elisabeth Auguste of the Palatinate, circa 1746-47. Photo Bonhams Of lobed tapering form, painted by Johann Jacob Wagner, the front with a scenes of Harlequin attending...

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Tags: Meissen, snuff box, Electress Elisabeth Auguste of the Palatinate, Johann Jacob Wagner

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5 juillet 2011

A rare Du Paquier gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1730-40

A rare Du Paquier gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1730-40. Photo Bonhams Of canted rectangular form, the cover painted with a bird above a flower basket within an iron-red quatrelobe cartouche enclosed by trellis ground with trefoil motifs, the inside...

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Tags: snuff box, 1730-40, Du Paquier

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5 juillet 2011

A Meissen gold-mounted oval snuff box for Queen Maria Amalia Christina of Naples and Sicily, circa 1745-47

A Meissen gold-mounted oval snuff box from the toilet service for Queen Maria Amalia Christina of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Saxony, circa 1745-47. Photo Bonhams Painted by Gottlob Siegmund Birckner, each side with a green monochrome scene of Watteauesque...

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Tags: Meissen, snuff box, 1745-47, Queen Maria Amalia Christina of Naples and Sicily

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4 juillet 2011

A Meissen gold-mounted snuff box, circa 1745-50

A Meissen gold-mounted snuff box, circa 1745-50. Photo Bonhams Of trefoil shape, finely painted in black monochrome with Watteauesque scenes, within three arched panels around the side below gilt scrolling foliage, trellis panels and flowers, above a...

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Tags: Meissen, snuff box, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Helmut Joseph Collection, 1745-1750

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2 juillet 2011

A Saint Cloud gold-mounted snuff box in the form of a recumbent horse, circa 1740-50

A Saint Cloud gold-mounted snuff box in the form of a recumbent horse, circa 1740-50. Photo Bonhams Mounted with a chased and engraved gold bridle and saddle and diamond chips in the eyes, mounted with an agate cover, the mounts twice marked with 'Eagle's...

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Tags: snuff box, Saint Cloud, 1740-1750

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2 juillet 2011

A Saint Cloud silver-mounted circular snuff box, circa 1735

A Saint Cloud silver-mounted circular snuff box, circa 1735. Photo Bonhams Moulded in relief with pagodas on landscape vignettes to the side, a parrot perched on a branch to the base and a hunt vignette with a boar and hound on the cover, the silver mount...

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Tags: chinoiserie, 1735, snuff box, Saint Cloud, Hubert Louvet

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2 juillet 2011

A Saint Cloud gold-mounted box in the form of a monk, circa 1740

A Saint Cloud gold-mounted box in the form of a monk, circa 1740. Photo Bonhams The bearded figure holding a beaker in his right hand, traces of marks to mount, perhaps the 'crowned mace' discharge mark for Jacques Cottin, Paris, 1727-32, 5.6cm across,...

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Tags: chinoiserie, snuff box, 1740, Saint Cloud, Jacques Cottin

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2 juillet 2011

A Chinese famille rose silver-mounted porcelain rectangular snuff box, third quarter 18th century.

A Chinese famille rose silver-mounted porcelain rectangular snuff box, third quarter 18th century. Photo Bonhams Each side painted in underglaze-blue with a foliate scrollwork border, enclosing, on the base and sides, a polychrome flower spray, and on...

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Tags: famille rose, 18th century, snuff box

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1 juillet 2011

A magnificent Meissen gold-mounted Royal snuff box made for Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, circa 1755

A magnificent Meissen gold-mounted Royal snuff box made for Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, circa 1755. Photo Bonhams Superbly painted with views of Dresden and Warsaw and Saxon royal palaces, depicting: on the cover, Dresden seen...

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Tags: Meissen, snuff box, 1755, Augustus III of Poland and Saxony

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1 juillet 2011

Two Meissen gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1737-40 modelled by J.J. Kändler

A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted snuff box, circa 1737-40. Photo Bonhams Modelled by J.J. Kändler, of trefoil form moulded with three cartouches enclosing a shell with pendant flowers and flanked by swags, the cover with a raised trefoil panel moulded with...

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Tags: Meissen, 18th century, snuff box, Alfred Joseph Collection, J.J. Kändler

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