A FINE SAXON HARDSTONE AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
A FINE SAXON HARDSTONE AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX

细节
A FINE SAXON HARDSTONE AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1770, MARKED WITH THE VIENNESE IMPORT MARK OF 1806 AND LATER FRENCH CONTROL MARKS

Oval box, the cover, sides and base inlaid with engraved hardstones including lapis-lazuli, jasper, heliotrope, amethystine quartz, chalcedony and vari-coloured agates representing bouquets of flowers in the Zellenmosaik technique on a burnished gold ground engraved with leaves and trailing foliage on a reeded knotted ribbon border
70 mm. wide
来源
Mrs Bonsack Collection
Sold Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1961, lot 121

拍品专文

A similar snuff-box by Neuber decorated with a pattern of Deutsche Blumen is in the Green Vault, Dresden (illustrated in Joachim Menzhausen, The Green Vault, Dresden, 1977, p. 113 upper left).