Snuffbox with a feathery 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 in front of architectural landscapes executed in polychrome painting, likely by the artist C.G. Alberti, active around 1767-1772. The inner lid is adorned with an oval, engraved gold floral wreath. Inside sits a noble lady, elegantly observing an open box. The motif is based on Meissen models. Partial interior gilding. Mounted in profiled silver, gold-plated, with a protruding, shell-ornamented handle. H. 4.5 cm. 8 cm x 6 cm. A comparable form example with floral decoration from 1759 can be found in the Reichmann Collection at the Fürstenberg Museum. See Bükamp-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. A gold-plated German porcelain snuff box with bird enamel mounting, likely by C.G. Alberti. Fürstenberg, circa 1760-1770.