The lid finely painted with a half-length figure of a woman holding a flower and seated in a chair, the front, rear and underside panels painted with landscapes, the sides and the lid interior with flowers, the corners with diaper panels,

Alessandro Biancalana illustrates a snuff box from the Carlo Colli collection with similar landscapes and a stippled figure of a girl which he attributes tentatively to the painter Gioacchino Rigacci, on the basis that he was employed in the decoration of “tabacchiere a paesani” (snuff boxes with small village landscapes) at the factory by 1759.[i]

A similarly decorated double snuff box in the Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen and a box perhaps by the same hand from the Helmut Joseph collection are illustrated in Beaucamp-Markowsky (1985), no. 478 & 481.

Condition:
Some very minor surface wear to glaze on underside of the base

References:

Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985
Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, (French edition, Les Editions de l’Amateur, Switzerland, 1985)

Biancalana 2023
Alessandro Biancalana, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia, La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, (Chimera Editore 2023)

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[i] Biancalana 2023, p. 492, no. 123, citing: ALG Firenze, XV, 2, f.138 Manifattura di Doccia. Documenti vari, fasc. 2

Price: £7,000