A Meissen porcelain silver-gilt mounted rectangular snuff-box and cover, c.1755-65, probably pain...

A Meissen porcelain silver-gilt mounted rectangular snuff-box and cover, c.1755-65, probably painted by Christian Friedrich Kühnel, each facet painted with huntsmen and huntswomen in landscape and river landscape vignettes, dressed in the yellow and blue hunting coats of Saxony and in green hunting coats, the cover interior with a further scene, the mount chased with flowers meandering around waved staves, 9.3cm wide overallProvenance: The Robert G. Vater Collection of European Ceramics.Note: C.F. Kühnel was a specialist in hunting scenes and his style is confirmed by a documentary saucer which he signed and dated 1776 in the Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, see Ulrich Pietsch, Eighteenth-Century Meissen Porcelain Snuff-Boxes in H. Ottomeyer et al., Meissen Snuff Boxes of the Eighteenth Century, Munich, 2013, pp. 88-89, fig. IV.19.Photographs: © Christie's ImagesCondition Report: Overall in good order. On the underside of the base there is some very minor typical surface scratching to the clear glaze, particularly at the corners.