Snuffbox with decoration of a merchant vessel.

A passively curved, bombarded and profiled body with a light masonry lid vault. On the surrounding wall - a fantastic river landscape with a majestic castle complex. The floor with a corresponding view of the castle and a ship. On the lid, a reserve surrounded by golden vines. Inside - a view of a harbor with impressive city fortifications, arriving and departing boats, and merchants in conversation. The inner lid with a Venetian promenade embankment, merchants before arriving sailing ships and a large palazzo. Based on a copper engraving by Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur. Good polychrome painting. Gilt copper base, damaged. Height 3.6 cm, 5.9 cm x 5.4 cm. Porcelain snuffbox with scenes of merchants, partly of a Venetian city harbor after an engraving by M. Küsel. Restored. German. Probably Meissen. Second half of the 18th century.