Snuffbox with merchant ship decor.

Passively curved, bombarded, and profiled corpus with lightly vaulted hinged lid. On the surrounding wall, a fantastical river landscape with an imposing castle complex. The floor with a corresponding view of the castle and ship. On the lid, a reserve surrounded by gold vines. Inside, a harbor view with an imposing city fortification, boats arriving and departing, and merchants in conversation. The inner lid with a Venetian harbor promenade, merchants in front of arriving sailing ships, and a large palazzo. Based on a copperplate print by Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur. Fine, polychrome painting. Gilded copper mounting, damaged. Height 3.6 cm, 5.9 cm x 5.4 cm. A porcelain snuff box with merchant scenes, partly Venetian city harbor scene after an engraving by M. Küsel. Restored. German. Probably Meissen. 2nd half of the 18th century.