Precious Porcelain
Meissen Porcelain Rose Moulded Snuff or Patch Box, c.1750
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Meissen Porcelain Rose Moulded Snuff or Patch Box, c.1750
A Nice Snuff Box Formed as a Rose Flower with overlapping Petals, left in the white. The Hinge is in good order and closes well.
Provenance: the Mavis Watney Collection. Previously Sold at Christies, lot 387 6th December 2004
A similar box in the form of a rose is mentioned in J.J. Kaendler's and J.G. Ehder's work reports in the second half of 1740 (B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen (1985), no. 184)
Size: 4cm high x 8cm wide
Condition: small firing crack and minor wear