GILT COPPER MOUNTED ENAMELLED COPPER DOUBLE SNUFF BOX

Description:

South Germany, mid 18th century
6,5 x 7 x 5,5 cm
All over painted with hunting scenes on white enamel ground, two hinged lids covering blue enamelled inner departments. Damages due to age.
Rhenish private collection, with Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich in 2007.
Lit. Snuff Boxes oder Von der Sehnsucht der lüsternen Nase, Catalogue Exposition of the Österreichisches Tabakmuseum Vienna, 1990, p. 86ff, No. 169, 170