Hamburg Tabatière
Silver, gilded inside. A cambered rectangular body on a flat base; the slightly domed hinged lid with engraved rocailles and the depiction of a cavalier with a lady and her maid. Engraved flower tendrils on the underside. Marks: BZ Hamburg for 1760 - 1784, MZ Zacharias Benjamin Möller (1777 - 1806, Schliemann no. 70, 502). H 2.8; W 7.6; D 5.8 cm, weight 98 g.
Hamburg, Zacharias Benjamin Möller, around 1780.
Provenance
Formerly Kunsthandel Meinz-Arnold, Hamburg 1979; North German aristocratic property.
Literature
Illustrated in Schliemann 1985, no. 729.
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