A St Cloud silver mounted snuff box and cover

A rare St Cloud silver mounted snuff box and cover, in the form of a seated Chinese man, wearing a pointed cap, picked out in orange, yellow and blue, his robes painted in coloured enamels with flowers, the hinged cover painted to the interior and exterior with a flower spray, 2 1/4" high, circa 1745

Provenance; English Private Collection

See Bertrand Rondot, Discovering the Secrets of Soft Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory, plate 192, for a similar snuff box 

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