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Snuffbox

ca. 1730 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Inside the lid of this box is a miniature of a hunting scene. It is taken from an engraving after J.E. Ridinger's Die Par-Force Jagd (hunting in which the quarry was driven towards an enclosure).

Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pierced and chased gold, carved mother of pearl, enamel, glazed miniature
Brief description
A cartouche shaped, enamelled gold and mother of pearl snuffbox, the cover enamelled in translucent red, green and blue and opaque blue and black, set with a chased huntsman and his dog
Physical description
A cartouche shaped, enamelled gold and mother of pearl snuffbox, the cover with an applied gold scene of a mounted huntsman and his hounds pursuing a stag, surrounded by a gold frame of foliage and strapwork enamelled in translucent red, green and blue, and opaque blue and black. Inside the cover a painting of a hunting scene under glass.
Dimensions
  • Width: 8.8cm
  • Height: 6.1cm
  • Depth: 3.4cm
Measured 19/02/24 IW
Marks and inscriptions
No marks
Gallery label
  • 3. Snuffbox with huntsman and dogs, about 1730 Museum no. Loan:Gilbert.403-2008(16/11/2016)
  • Snuffbox with huntsman and dogs About 1730 Inside the lid is a miniature of a hunting scene. It is taken from an engraving after J.E. Ridinger’s Die Par-Force Jagd (hunting in which the quarry was driven towards an enclosure). Probably Germany Enamelled gold, mother-of-pearl and glazed miniature Formerly in the collection of Baroness Mathilde von Rothschild, Frankfurt and Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild Museum no. Loan:Gilbert.403-2008(2009)
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance: Baroness Mathilde von Rothschild, Frankfurt. Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, sale Ball und Graupe, Berlin, lot. 294, March 24, 1931. Sotheby's, Geneva, lot. 186, May 16, 1985.
Production
The miniature inside the cover is based on an engraving after the South German artist J.E. Ridinger's Die Par-Force Jagd
Subjects depicted
Summary
Inside the lid of this box is a miniature of a hunting scene. It is taken from an engraving after J.E. Ridinger's Die Par-Force Jagd (hunting in which the quarry was driven towards an enclosure).

Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
Bibliographic references
  • Truman, Charles.The Gilbert collection of gold boxes, Vol. I. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1991, cat. no. 59, pp. 178-9. ISBN.0875871623
  • Zech, Heike. Gold Boxes. Masterpieces from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection. London: V&A Publishing, 2015, pp. 66-67, no. 17. ISBN 987-1-85177-840-9
  • Schroder, Timothy. Gold boxes : from the Gilbert collection : an exhibition, Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986 25 or 27
Other numbers
  • GB 101 - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • 1996.452 - The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House
Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.403-2008

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Record createdJune 19, 2008
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