拍品 35
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A SWISS MINIATURES-SET ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
A SWISS MINIATURES-SET ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

细节
A SWISS MINIATURES-SET ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
GENEVA, CIRCA 1840/1850, THE MINIATURE BY RICHARD SCHWAGER, SIGNED, CIRCA 1850

Oval box with wavy outlines, the cover inset with a glazed miniature depicting a mother with her two children, she in white muslin dress and black lace stole, holding the hand of her younger child dressed in white lace and decorated with the blue sash of an order, her elder son in red velvet coat, against a foliage background, framed by a border of stylized acanthus, the sides of the box enamelled with oval cartouches representing trophies and flowers, the base centred by a shaped reserve painted in green camaïeu with musical instruments and love symbols, surrounded by a wreath of flowers twisted with a ribbon, damaged
81 mm. wide

拍品专文

J. Richard Schwager (1822-1880) was one of the most prominent exponents of the Viennese School of miniaturists in the 19th Century. Leo R. Schidlof (La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 758) points out that due to his ability in painting children, as one can see in the present example, he became one of the favorite miniaturists of the Viennese aristocracy.