Snuff box, ca. 1760
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1760
Snuff box of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and mounted in gilt bronze. Oval with slightly concave sides, flat oval foot and slightly domed cover. Outside the decoration is mainly in low relief, supplemented with painting in colours.
On the cover is the head of Medusa with snakes in her hair. Round the sides are formal scrolls, shell and lattice ornament painted with sprays of flowers below. In side the cover is a half-length figure of a classical muse, wreathed, with a red mantle, and playing a lute. Trees and sky behind.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Width: 7.3 cm
- Materials and techniques
- Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and mounted in gilt bronze
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Doccia
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O307000
- Museum object number
- C.31-1962
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
Catalogue references
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