A group of six Continental porcelain and enameled metal snuff boxes in the Chinese taste 18th/19th century
Comprising a Saint Cloud silver-mounted cat-form box, a circular enameled box depicting a Turkish lady, two figural boxes depicting pagode figures, an unusual box in the form of an armadillo or pagolin, and a cabbage-form box. (6).
Provenance: Cat: The Harkness Collection, Salt Lake City, Utah;
Wm. Blair Ltd., Hammond, Louisiana, November 19, 1999.
Cabbage box: Christophe Perles, Paris, May 23, 2013.
Laying pagode: Perles, September 14, 2010.
Estate of a Washington, D.C. collector.
Comprising a Saint Cloud silver-mounted cat-form box, a circular enameled box depicting a Turkish lady, two figural boxes depicting pagode figures, an unusual box in the form of an armadillo or pagolin, and a cabbage-form box. (6).
H: 2 3/4, W: 3 1/4 in. (largest)
Provenance: Cat: The Harkness Collection, Salt Lake City, Utah;
Wm. Blair Ltd., Hammond, Louisiana, November 19, 1999.
Cabbage box: Christophe Perles, Paris, May 23, 2013.
Laying pagode: Perles, September 14, 2010.
Estate of a Washington, D.C. collector.
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Comprising a Saint Cloud silver-mounted cat-form box, a circular enameled box depicting a Turkish lady, two figural boxes depicting pagode figures, an unusual box in the form of an armadillo or pagolin, and a cabbage-form box. (6).
Provenance: Cat: The Harkness Collection, Salt Lake City, Utah;
Wm. Blair Ltd., Hammond, Louisiana, November 19, 1999.
Cabbage box: Christophe Perles, Paris, May 23, 2013.
Laying pagode: Perles, September 14, 2010.
Estate of a Washington, D.C. collector.
Comprising a Saint Cloud silver-mounted cat-form box, a circular enameled box depicting a Turkish lady, two figural boxes depicting pagode figures, an unusual box in the form of an armadillo or pagolin, and a cabbage-form box. (6).
H: 2 3/4, W: 3 1/4 in. (largest)
Provenance: Cat: The Harkness Collection, Salt Lake City, Utah;
Wm. Blair Ltd., Hammond, Louisiana, November 19, 1999.
Cabbage box: Christophe Perles, Paris, May 23, 2013.
Laying pagode: Perles, September 14, 2010.
Estate of a Washington, D.C. collector.