Ludwigsburg snuff box
Painted by Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel (1724 – 1784)
Ludwigsburg rd. 1760
mark inside the box
Dimensions: 4.7 high x 6.8 long x 5.4 cm deep
Description
Due to the mark and the portrait on the inside of the cover, the snuffbox can undoubtedly be attributed to Ludwigsburg. The extraordinarily fine painting in purple Camaieu comes from Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel.
Riedel (1724 - 1784) was a well-known and successful porcelain painter, draftsman, engraver and later also publisher. He received his first painterly training at the court of the Landgrave of Hessen. After returning to his native Dresden, he became a student of the Saxon court painter Louis de Silvestre. From 1743 - 1756 he worked as a painter in the porcelain manufactory Meissen. He left Meissen during the ‘Seven Years War’ and went via Höchst to the manufactory to Frankenthal, where he immediately became "Director of Malerey". The culmination of his porcelain career was Ludwigsburg, where for 20 years (1759 - 1779) he left a deep mark as head painter, head of the color laboratory and chief designer for the tableware. In 1779 he went to Augsburg as an independent engraver and founded his own publishing house there.
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