A Fine and Very Rare Saint Cloud Gilt-Metal Mounted Snuff Box and Cover in the Form of a Reclining Shepherdess, Circa 1740
Further images
A Fine and Very Rare Saint Cloud Gilt-Metal Mounted Snuff Box and Cover in the Form of a Reclining Shepherdess wearing a mob-cap, long tunic, and flowing skirt with a blue painted sash edged in gilt across her chest. She rests on her side with her head propped against her left hand upon a grassy mound painted with kakiemon-style flowers. A painted insect rests on the back of her right shoulder. A yellow painted crook with blue enamelled ferrule and spotted dog lies next to her.
The cover is further decorated with kakiemon-style flowers.
Literature
See a similar example illustrated in Deborah Gage, Tobacco Containers & Accessories: Their Place in Eighteenth Century European Social History (1988), cat. 23, p. 117.
See a similar example illustrated in Rosalie Wise Sharp, China To Light Up A House: Volume One (2015), cat. 437, p. 117.
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