A VERY IMPORTANT SAXON HARDSTONE AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL MINIATURE

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A VERY IMPORTANT SAXON HARDSTONE AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL MINIATURE
BY JOHANN-CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1775/1780, THE MINIATURE BY CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE, LONDON, CIRCA 1730

Oval box, the cover centred by a diamond-mounted oval enamel portrait miniature depicting a young girl in a silver-figured sky-blue velvet dress and pink silk drape, a rope of pearls in her curly blonde hair, set on a flowerhead pattern of gold-mounted striated brown agate panels on a concentrically striated agate ground, the base with an identical pattern, the sides inset with striated red and mocha-coloured agates forming a pattern of interwoven bands adorned with four floral rosettes, the lid and base bordered with bands of grey striated agate inlaid with twisted green and red hardstone stripes embellished with flowerheads
95 mm. wide

來源

Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Leitmeritz (in 1935)
Wartski, London (in 1966).

出版

Walter Holzhausen, Johann Christian Neuber, Dresden, 1935, illustr. no. 25
Clare Le Corbeiller, European and American Snuff Boxes 1730-1830, London, 1966, illustr. no. 476.

拍品專文

Christian Friedrich Zincke (1683 Dresden - 1767 London), began his career as a goldsmith like his father but also studied painting. In 1706 he settled in London and specialised in painting enamel miniatures. He was doubtlessly the most important enameller active in England in the first half of the 18th Century and his miniatures are to be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and the Musée Cognac-Jay, Paris. His best works are in the Collection of H. M. the Queen of England (illustr. in Richard Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1992, nos. 26-72).