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Description: | This snuff box has been transfer printed and over-painted in enamel colours on white enamel and decorated with raised gilt and white rococo scrolls. The top shows a shepherd in blue with a crook and girl in blue with pink panniers with a dog in a riverside landscape. The sides show four vignettes of country life; a fishing party; a couple walking; a couple seated in a field with sheep. The first three of these appear on p.32 in Robert Sayer's 'The Ladies Amusement' 2nd edition, dated 1762. Each vignette is surrounded by raised gilt and white rococo scrolls. The base has raised gilt rococo scrolls which enclose a painted version of two birds pecking at an overturned basket of fruit from the Hancock engraving on p.74 of Sayer's 'The Ladies Amusement'. The mounts are chased copper gilt with an elaborate thumb piece.
Table snuff box, printed and over-painted in enamel showing a shepherd, girl and dog by the riverside. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fishing Manufacturing industry Black Country Decorative arts Metalworking industries Snuff Enamels Birds Fruit Water Georgian period | Temporal: | 1762 - 1765
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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