A Rare St Cloud Snuff Box with Paris Silver Mounts, Circa 1748
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.
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Silver Hallmarks
Literature
See Bertrand Rondot Discovering the Secrets of Soft-paste Porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766 (1999), pl. 192, pp. 238 for a similarly decorated Snuffbox in the Shape of a Seated Magot.Join our mailing list
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