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A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ SNUFF BOX A SMALL CANTON ENAMEL PLAQUE
18th century 18th century
The oval lid finely enamelled with a scene of three figures enjoying Probably the lid of a snuff box for export to Europe, the front finely
wine in a luxurious interior, the pourer partially clad, the underside of painted with a European scene with two gentlemen and a lady
the cover with a crab on a rock amongst flowers, the globular body amusing themselves with music and games in a pastoral landscape,
embellished with a fruit and flowers border below a spear-head band, the reverse with a similar gently erotic scene but with a Chinese couple
all on a yellow ground, the base with a scrolling floral motif. in an interior, framed.
7.2cm (2 3/4in) wide 7cm (2 3/4in) wide
£6,000 - 8,000 £700 - 900
CNY58,000 - 77,000 CNY6,800 - 8,700
HK$71,000 - 94,000 HK$8,200 - 11,000
Compare with a enamelled box lid in the Ashmolean Museum
exhibition Chinese Painted Enamel, 1978, and illustrated in the
accompanying catalogue, p. 22, no. 16.
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