A Rare St Cloud Snuff Box with Paris Silver Mounts, Circa 1748
Width 2 1/8 ins. (5.4 cms.) Height 2 1/8 ins. (5.4 cms.)
Item No. 1937
A Rare St Cloud Snuff Box with Paris Silver Mounts, moulded in the form of a seated figure with pointed cap, modelled after a Budai shape. His attire is decorated...
A Rare St Cloud Snuff Box with Paris Silver Mounts, moulded in the form of a seated figure with pointed cap, modelled after a Budai shape. His attire is decorated with painted floral sprigs and insects in green, blue, and yellow outlined with iron-red overglaze enamels. The hollow interior is painted with three insects. The silver mounted base with Paris hallmarks features two landscape scenes. The exterior depicts a person dressed in red, blue, and yellow robes walking with a parasol across a bridge. The inside is painted with a man wearing a red hat walking towards a bridge.
Mark
Silver Hallmarks