A FINE GERMAN ROCOCO HARDSTONE, MOTHER-OF-PEARL, TINTED SHELL AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
A FINE GERMAN ROCOCO HARDSTONE, MOTHER-OF-PEARL, TINTED SHELL AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX

细节
A FINE GERMAN ROCOCO HARDSTONE, MOTHER-OF-PEARL, TINTED SHELL AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BERLIN, CIRCA 1750, MARKED WITH THE VIENNESE 20 CARAT GOLD DUTY MARK OF 1806/1807

Rectangular box, the cover, sides and base inlaid with mother-of-pearl panels engraved and carved with exotic architecture, flowers and scrolls and applied with Chinoiserie scenes and floral compositions in various hardstones, ivory, tinted shell and gold, the gold cagework mounts engraved with ribbons, pellets and leaves on a reeded ground, and with trailing bell-flowers on a matted gold ground
80 mm. wide
来源
Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820-1886), Frankfurt am Main
Thence by heritage to The Lord Rothschild, G.B.E., G.M., F.R.S.
His sale of Highly Important Gold Boxes, Christie's, London, 30 June 1982, lot 45.
出版
Ferdinand Luthmer, Führer durch die Freiherrlich K. von Rothschild'sche Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1890, I, p. 91, no. 5