Snuff Box

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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Meissen Porcelain Factory (manufacturer) Herold, Christian Friedrich (painter)
Place of origin	Meissen (made)

Snuff box of hard-paste porcelain. Oval, waisted shape. Gold mounts with shell-shaped thumb piece. Sea-green ground with lobed reserves painted in enamel colours with chinoiserie figures in landscapes. On the bottom, a panel of purple diaper with reserved oriental flowers in blue, iron-red and yellow. Gilt interior.

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Categories	Porcelain Ceramics Smoking Accessories
Object type	Snuff box
Materials and techniques	Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded, with gold mounts Hard Paste Porcelain Gold Painted Gilded Mounted
Brief description	Snuff box, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, with gold mounts, painted by C.F. Herold, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, 1730-1735.
Physical description	Snuff box of hard-paste porcelain. Oval, waisted shape. Gold mounts with shell-shaped thumb piece. Sea-green ground with lobed reserves painted in enamel colours with chinoiserie figures in landscapes. On the bottom, a panel of purple diaper with reserved oriental flowers in blue, iron-red and yellow. Gilt interior.
Dimensions	Height: 4.3cm Length: 6.8cm Width: 4.2cm
Style	Chinoiserie
Marks and inscriptions	Crossed swords (Factory mark, discernable inside beneath the gilding)
Object history	From Bernal Collection.
Production	Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted	Figures Landscapes Diaper-Work Flowers
Bibliographic references	Honey, W. B. Dresden china: an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. London: A. & C. Black, 1946, Pl. XXX (a), pp. 65, 69, 85, 95. Honey, W. B. German porcelain London: Faber and Faber, 1947, Pl. 6B, p. 13. Le Corbeiller, Clare. European and American snuff boxes, 1730-1830 London: Batsford, 1966, Fig. 487.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	2333-1855

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O307038/snuff-box-herold-christian-friedrich/

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