An enamel snuff box with courtship scenes
An enamel snuff box with courtship scenes
Enamelled copper with gilt copper mountings. Rectangular box with hinged lid, decorated throughout with courting couples and an architectural landscape to the underside. Two minor cracks to the lid, two star-shaped cracks to the underside. 3.8 cm x 8.8 cm x 6.7 cm.
Berlin, attributed to Daniel Chodowiecki, ca. 1760 - 70.
Literature
Cf. a similar box in: Bursche, Galanterien, Berlin 1996, no. 65.
Cf. a further similar box in the collection Musée Cognacq-Jay (de Los LLanos/Grégoire, Boîtes en or et objets de vertu, Paris 2011, no. 110).
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An enamel snuff box with courtship scenes
Enamelled copper with gilt copper mountings. Rectangular box with hinged lid, decorated throughout with courting couples and an architectural landscape to the underside. Two minor cracks to the lid, two star-shaped cracks to the underside. 3.8 cm x 8.8 cm x 6.7 cm.
Berlin, attributed to Daniel Chodowiecki, ca. 1760 - 70.
Literature
Cf. a similar box in: Bursche, Galanterien, Berlin 1996, no. 65.
Cf. a further similar box in the collection Musée Cognacq-Jay (de Los LLanos/Grégoire, Boîtes en or et objets de vertu, Paris 2011, no. 110).
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