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871 - Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur
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Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur An important Meissen porcelain snuff box with motifs based on French engravings In gilt copper mounts. Unmarked. The interior gilding retouched. Height 4.3, width 8.8, depth 6.8 cm. Around 1740 - 45, decor attributed to Johann Georg Heintze. Ulrich Pietsch found the prototypes for the illustrations on almost every face of this snuff box. On the cover is ‘Le baiser rendu’, depicted by Pierre Filloeul after Jean-Baptiste François Pater. On the inside cover is ‘La conversation’ by Jean-Michel Liotard after Jean-Antoine Watteau, and on the back is a modified version of ‘Nicaise’ by Nicolas IV de Larmessin after Nicolas Lancret. Provenance Private collection Westphalia. Literature Published in Röbbig (ed.), Meissener Tabatièren des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich 2013, cat. no. 61.
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