A snuffbox with a feathered ornament and a portrait of a woman.

A rectangular, slightly curved body with compressed edges. The walls are surrounded on all sides by purple rocaille relief paintings. Inside them are colored images of feathered game birds before architectural landscapes in polychrome painting, probably by the artist C.G. Alberti, active approximately in 1767–1772. The inner lid is decorated with an oval, gold-engraved floral wreath. Inside sits a noble lady, gracefully observing the open box. The motif is based on Meissen models. Partial internal gilding. The mount is of profiled silver, covered with gold, with a protruding handle decorated with a shell ornament. H. 4.5 cm. 8 cm x 6 cm. A comparable example in shape with floral decor from 1759 can be found in the Reichmann collection at the Fürstenberg Museum. See Buekamp-Markowski, Catalog of Porcelain Boxes, No. 231, 50; Ducret, Fürstenberg Porcelain, vol. II, fig. 64f., p. 68; Jedding, European Porcelain, p. II/2; Exhibition "Ey! wie schmeckt," No. 47. Gilt German porcelain snuffbox with a mount of enamel birds, probably by C.G. Alberti. Fürstenberg, circa 1760–1770.