Légende

Double snuffbox, LZ enameller; France?; fl. ca. 1700. Double-sided snuffbox, tall, narrowed halfway up; slightly bulging lids, framed by silver, profiled fittings. White-enameled, decorated with colourful scenes from the story of Samson depicted against a landscape painted in grisailles. On the sides two representations: Samson going to the Philistine city of Timna, shown the way by three women, and Samson fighting a lion. On the lids: Samson carrying the door the city gate to the top of the mountain opposite Hebron, and Samson taking honey from the lion's mouth. On the reverse of the lids: two landscapes with architecture painted in grisailles and colourful flowers painted in the bottoms. Enamelling; iconography: Samson Bible, Samson fighting a lion, Samson collecting honey from a lion's mouth, flowers. Early 18th century, France . Smoking accessory. Height 7 cm, width 7.7 cm, depth 4.7 cm., An open small metal box with an interior lid showing a monochrome sketched scene of a riverside with a stone building that has an arched colonnade and a tall tower, a group of trees behind it, a couple of small human figures standing near the building, a boat with figures on the water at the left, and a few birds in the sky; colors visible include white, gray, black, brown, and a touch of red on the inner base.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A09_137

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

77.2Mo (1.8Mo) / 50.8cm x 38.1cm / 6000 x 4500 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Double snuffbox LZ enameller France fl ca 1700 Double-sided snuffbox tall narrowed halfway up slightly bulging lids framed silver profiled fittings White-enameled decorated colourful scenes story Samson depicted landscape painted grisailles sides two representations Samson going Philistine city Timna shown way three women Samson fighting lion Samson carrying door city gate top mountain opposite Hebron Samson taking honey lion's mouth reverse two landscapes architecture painted colourful flowers painted bottoms Enamelling iconography Samson Bible collecting flowers Early 18th century Smoking accessory Height 7 cm width 7.7 cm depth 4.7 cm open small metal box interior lid showing monochrome sketched scene riverside stone building arched colonnade tall tower group trees couple small human figures standing near building boat figures water left birds sky colors visible include white gray black brown touch red inner base.