An Extremely Rare Vienna Imperial Porcelain Manufactory Snuffbox and Cover, mounted with enamelled gold inscribed ‘fidèle’ to form the collar of a naturalistically modelled Jagdhund or hunting dog painted tan with cropped ears, textured black muzzle and beady black eyes wide open. The interior signed in puce ‘L.V.LVCKe’.

Further Details: Johann Christof Ludwig Lücke (1703-1780) was a noted sculptor, who came from a family of renowned ivory sculptors. He was a figure modeller at Meissen from April 1728 until his dismissal in January 1729. He worked at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna between 1750-1751, followed by Höchst in 1752.

See a similar example signed by Lucke in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and illustrated in Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des Manufactures Européenes au 18e Siècle (1985), p. 251, cat. 202.

See another example of Vienna porcelain in the form of an étui in the Untermyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (64.101.278) signed ‘L.v. Lvcke’ in puce.