Saint Cloud snuffbox in the form of a water buffalo, c.1740
$11,500.00 AUD
Saint Cloud snuff box, modelled as a reclining water buffalo, with details picked out in brown and black, having blue eyes and red mouth, the lid with colourful chinoiserie decoration to either face, the outside with a seated figure, the interior with a garden in Kakiemon colours.
Silver hallmarks for Paris,
fox head discharge for 1738-44,
Circa 1740.
| Condition | ref. Lahaussois, Porcelain de Saint Cloud, #362 for a cat with the same coat details, 381 for the same polychrome figure on the lid. The interior chinoiserie is more usual on tea wares, ie #184. |
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| Size | 7.5cm wide, 4cm high |
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