Meissen snuff box with a Commedia dell’arte scene

Painted by Philipp Ernst Schindler, Meissen, 1745 / Dimensions: 7.9 cm long / 6 cm wide / 4.2 cm high / No marks / Form number: 71 (according to Beaucamp-Markowsky)

Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, November 6, 1970, No. 114 / Collection of Dr. Julius Jacobson II, New York (Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, No. 123)