A SILVER-GILT SNUFF BOX WITH MOTHER OF PEARL, GOLD AND SILVER LID, PROBABLY JOHANN MELCHIOR DINGLINGER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1720

A SILVER-GILT SNUFF BOX WITH MOTHER OF PEARL, GOLD AND SILVER LID, PROBABLY JOHANN MELCHIOR DINGLINGER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1720

of cartouche form, the mother of pearl lid applied with finely-chased gold, silver-gilt and silver openwork scrolls enclosing a harlequin below a baldaquin, surrounded by symmetrical silver scrollwork set with a flute-playing squirrel, a drum-playing monkeys, eagles and cornucopiae, crowned by an arch supporting the figure of a peasant sprinkling fine gold seeds, in the manner of André Berain, the sides, base and interior of polished silver-gilt, the lid interior with a miniature on ivory representing a bucolic scene of a young man presenting a bird's nest to a lady, her rival enviously observing the scene from the background, German school, first quarter of the 18th century, unmarked
9.1cm., 3½in. wide

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