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Handicraft

Important Early Meissen Snuffbox with Gold Mounts

Meissen, porcelain around 1723/24
Gold mounts, mid-18th century
Fine Meissen hard-paste porcelain;
underglaze blue crossed-swords mark and "K.P.M." inscription (1723–24);featuring an elaborately crafted solid gold mount.

The exterior is decorated with painted hunting scenes.The inside of the lid features a finely executed portrait—likely of Princess Maria Anna of Saxony—depicted in hunting attire with her dogs.

The box was originally produced as undecorated white porcelain; its high-quality gold mounts and fine enamel painting were added in a subsequent stage of production.Stylistic features of the mount convincingly date it to the mid-18th century, suggesting that this embellishment was created to mark the 1747 marriage of Princess Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony to Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria.

Provenance:
Collection of Maximilian Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843–1940), Frankfurt am Main.

Acquired by the City of Frankfurt in 1938 as a result of Nazi persecution and transferred to the Museum für Kunsthandwerk (Museum of Applied Arts), Frankfurt.
Restituted to the heirs of the Goldschmidt-Rothschild family in 1949.
Sold via the New York art market in 1957.
Later in the collection of Annie Laurie Crawford, New York.
Its unbroken provenance, tracing back to one of Europe's most significant private collections, lends the object exceptional historical and collecting significance.

Height 5 cm, Width 6.7 cm, Depth 4.6 cm

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Portrait of Contessa Rosa Arconati

Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario, around 1700

 

Oil on canvas. At the bottom left of the inscription is inscribed "Josepha Marianna Monialis / Professa in Mon. S. Mariae / Magdalenae P. L. Filia Comitis / Joseph Mariae Arconati in Saeculo Rosa".

The portrait shows one of the four daughters of the Milanese art collector Count Giuseppe Maria Arconati. He commissioned the Bergamo artist Fra Galgario to create a series of portraits of his daughters for the Villa Arconati in Lombardy.

The imposing painting shows Contessa Rosa Arconati in fantastically reproduced, most magnificent, contemporary fashion, with a pinned-up curly hairstyle and pearl jewellery on her neck, wrists and hair.

In front of a curtain drapery overlooking a garden terrace, she is presented with a sheet of music on a musical instrument as an elegant and educated lady of the Milanese nobility. Only the inscription attached to the picture refers to her future as "Suor Gioseffa Marianna" in the monastery of Santa Maria Magdalena.

Ghislandi (Bergamo 1655-1743, ibid.) came from a Bergamo family of painters and lived in Venice from 1675. There he joined the Minorite Order as a lay brother. In 1702 he belonged to the monastery of Galgario in Bergamo, changing his name to Fra Vittorio or Fra Galgario.

After returning to Bergamo from Venice and Milan, Ghislandi perfected his skills and became one of the most sought-after portrait painters of the northern Italian nobility.

Height 207 cm, width 119 cm.

Thieme/Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 13, pp. 566ff

Paintings

Furniture

Biedermeier secretary

probably Weimar, Thuringia, around 1820

 

A secretary “à abattant” elaborately decorated with black stain painting, with three large drawers in the base, and a pull-out writing surface. The central storage opening is architecturally structured and there is a porcelain plaque with an antique scene in the tympanum, white on a wedge-wood blue background. The furniture has various secret compartments.

 

On oak, mahogany cherry, boxwood partially coloured and veneered. Mother-of-pearl key plates and horn knobs.

 

Height: 196 cm, width: 108 cm, depth 51 cm/101 cm

Furniture