Snuffbox
Unknown
ca. 1760 · Hard-paste porcelain, silver-gilt mounts. · Robert Lehman Collection
The box is closely related in both exterior and interior decoration to one in the Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen, and the paintings, although different in subject, appear to be by the same hand. A German mother-of-pearl and ivory box of about 1750 at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, is painted inside the lid with an allegorical scene of similar character, also possibly by the same artist. The originals of the two allegorical scenes, which stylistically point to a single painter, are unidentified.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1760
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, silver-gilt mounts.
- Culture
- German, Meissen
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
