Snuff Box
ca. 1760 (made)
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Snuff box of hard-paste porcelain. Rectangular, with low domed cover. Copper mounts. Purple scale-pattern ground with reserved cartouches with classical subjects, the cartouches framed with coloured rococo scrolls. Inside the cover: Venus and Adonis with cupid.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, with copper mounts |
| Brief description | Snuff box, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, with copper mounts, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1760 |
| Physical description | Snuff box of hard-paste porcelain. Rectangular, with low domed cover. Copper mounts. Purple scale-pattern ground with reserved cartouches with classical subjects, the cartouches framed with coloured rococo scrolls. Inside the cover: Venus and Adonis with cupid. |
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| 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. |
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| Accession number | 2348-1855 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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