A Meissen copper-gilt mounted rectangular snuff-box Circa 1755, the mounts probably contemporary Each side painted with river-landscape vignettes with figures on horseback, at discussion, fishing and other pursuits in river-landscapes with trees and castles, towers and cottages, the base with classical ruins, within rectangular moulded scroll cartouches, the interior stippled after with a lady seated at a table in an interior, searching for something in a gold box, within an oval gilt cartouche with meandering foliage and edged with large gilt ciselé flowers (base with slight wear, exterior with minute wear, one side with small scratch, interior with minute scratches to central panel) 3 3/8 in. (8.7 cm.) wide overall
A Meissen copper-gilt mounted rectangular snuff-box Circa 1755, the mounts probably contemporary Each side painted with river-landscape vignettes with figures on horseback, at discussion, fishing and other pursuits in river-landscapes with trees and castles, towers and cottages, the base with classical ruins, within rectangular moulded scroll cartouches, the interior stippled after with a lady seated at a table in an interior, searching for something in a gold box, within an oval gilt cartouche with meandering foliage and edged with large gilt ciselé flowers (base with slight wear, exterior with minute wear, one side with small scratch, interior with minute scratches to central panel) 3 3/8 in. (8.7 cm.) wide overall
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