A SAXON GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MINIATURE

Lot 6
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£ 178 920
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Lot 6 | A SAXON GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MINIATURE
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£ 120 000 – 180 000
A SAXON GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MINIATURE

BY JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1775-1780

Large oval box, the lid, sides and base with bands of radiating gold-mounted panels of striped agate alternating with carnelian within nephrite laurel garlands held by turquoise forget-me-not flowerheads alternating with hardstone violets and scattered simulated pearl under rock crystal, the sides and base centred with clusters of flowers and foliage set in cloud shape gold panels, the side panels interspaced with festoons of lapis-lazuli and nephrite forget-me-not, the cover centred by a later oval enamel miniature of a lady framed above by a carnelian ribbon tie and below by a bloodstone and carnelian foliate wreath

3 1⁄2 in. (88 mm.) long





Provenance

C.H.T. Hawkins;

C. H. T. Hawkins Collection; Christie's, London, 26-28 March 1904, lot 74 (£100 to Hodgkins);

Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Estate of the late Edward Steinkopff, Esq.; Christie's, London, 22 May 1935, lot 24 (£120 to Taylor);

Christie's, Geneva, 13 November 1990, lot 153.



Literature

A. Kugel ed., Gold, Jasper and Carnelian, Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court, London, 2012, no. 114, p. 354.

G. Cummins, Antique Boxes, Inside and Out, Antique Collectors Club, 2006.

Jean-Louis de Rambures, L'orfèvre minéralogiste Neuber, Connaissance des Arts, August 1970, pp. 40-47

Jean-Auguste Lehninger, Description de la ville de Dresde ... et de ses environs, Dresden, 1782, p. 337.

Walter Holzhausen, Johann Christian Neuber, Dresden, 1935.
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