Porcelain model of a camel and two lambs in a basket as a snuff box

Porcelain model of a camel and two lambs in a basket as a snuff box

With gilt copper mountings. Finely painted animal motifs, the base with a hinged lid painted on the inner and outer faces with bouquets. Unmarked. H 5, W 6 cm.
Attributed to Chelsea Porcelain Factory, 1752 - 58.

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

"Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 80.
A further example in Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge 1957, fig. 208, pl. 69."