拍品专文
A very similar gold box by Neuber, but without the precious stones, is illustrated in A. Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Woodbridge, 1990, plates 692 and 692A.
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细节
A VERY IMPORTANT SAXON JEWELLED GOLD STEIN-KABINETTS-TABATIÈRE
BY JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1785, MARKED WITH RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARK FOR GOLD, PARIS, 1838 ONWARDS
Oval box, the cover centred by an oval purple foiled quartz plaque applied with carved hardstones and glass depicting fruit, in a gold mount, on a ground decorated with a scalework of petal-shaped hardstone panels within engraved gold mounts with numbers engraved on silver plaques, the sides and the base with matching panels, similarly numbered, the total counting from 1 to 93, including gems and a pearl on the cover and a central oval porcelain plaque on the base painted with the Meissen Porcelain Factory, the burnished gold borders encrusted with simulated pearls alternating with flowerheads in blue and red hardstones
90 mm. wide
BY JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1785, MARKED WITH RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARK FOR GOLD, PARIS, 1838 ONWARDS
Oval box, the cover centred by an oval purple foiled quartz plaque applied with carved hardstones and glass depicting fruit, in a gold mount, on a ground decorated with a scalework of petal-shaped hardstone panels within engraved gold mounts with numbers engraved on silver plaques, the sides and the base with matching panels, similarly numbered, the total counting from 1 to 93, including gems and a pearl on the cover and a central oval porcelain plaque on the base painted with the Meissen Porcelain Factory, the burnished gold borders encrusted with simulated pearls alternating with flowerheads in blue and red hardstones
90 mm. wide