Papier-mâché snuff box with a cylindrical body and a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Housed with a 20th-century sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer)., Title from dealer's catalog., Acquired as having been owned by Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Note that this snuffbox is not mounted in gold., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Ditto, red colour, mounted with gold. (Description of previous lot to which ditto refers: A curious old green colour papier mâché French snuff box, mounted with gold.)
Aloncle, François-Joseph, active 1758-1781, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1756]
Call Number:
sh-000254 On display in the Long Hall
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Cup and saucer
Description:
A soft-paste porcelain Sèvres cup and saucer, painted in enamel with flower motifs and panels of exotic birds by François-Joseph Aloncle (fl. 1758-81), with gilding., Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A beautiful lilac ground variegated pattern old Sevres China cabinet cup and saucer, the paintings enriched by Birds, of brilliant plumage., Marks: on the saucer interlaced L's in blue and date letter M (1765); “N” in script underneath for Aloncle; incised numeral 3; cup incised with reversed “s”., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Plate painted with the sacrifices of Cain and Abel
Description:
Title devised by curator., A tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) plate, painted and gilt, with a scene showing the death of Abel. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill. The scene perhaps in reverse after an engraving by Gerard de Laitesse., Text from 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill: 17. possibly [China Room]. Four dessert plates of fayence, with figures and boys round the borders; by Pietro da Cortona: very fine. A fifth ditto with goats, a present from Lady Diana Beauclerc., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pair of very rare plates, on one is represented the Building of Babel, with many figures, on the other the Death of Abel., Label on verso: Strawberry Hill; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”., Castelli maiolica from the workshop of Carlantonio Grue. Formerly inventoried at Lewis Walpole Library as Delft., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Chinese export porcelain Mandarin pattern ewer and basin
Description:
A hard-paste porcelain ewer and basin, painted with figures in a landscape, of the style made specifically for the European market., Title devised by curator., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Rectangular enameled plaque with a colored image showing a king-fisher on the left, two ducks on the right near a pond, and a building between them in the distance, similar to one belonging to Horace Walpole., "A king-fisher and ducks, of the Battersea enamel: it was a manufacture, stamped with a copper plate, supported by Alderman Jansen, but failed"--From the 1774 Description. Formerly located in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Title and date from dealer's catalog., Gilt bronze mount., Painted after Robert Hancock., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
A snuff box, silver gilt (vermeil) over brass, with a portrait in wax of Madame du Deffand's dog Tonton. She bequeathed the box to Horace Walpole in 1780. It was displayed in the Tribune (Cabinet) in Strawberry Hill., Title devised by curator., Text from the 1784 Description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill: 66 [Tribune]. In the other glass case: ... A gold snuff-box with the image in wax of mad. Du Deffand's dog, Tonton, whom she bequeathed with this suff-box and her MSS. to Mr. Walpole., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A circular shaped gold snuff box, engine turned, with the image in wax of Madame la Marquise du Deffand's dog, Tonton, which she bequeathed, with the snuff box and her manuscripts, to Horace Walpole., Also available as a digital reproduction., and Engraved inscription inside: This box with the portrait of her dog Tonton was bequeathed by Madame La Marquise du Deffand to Mr. Horace Walpole 1780. Inscribed on rim: Roucel Orf. du Roy, Paris.
Hand-painted tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) palte, painted and gilt. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill., Title devised by curator., Castelli maiolica from the workshop of Carlantonio Grue. Formerly inventoried as Delft., Label on verso: Walpole Collection Strawberry Hill Sale'; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”., Text from 1774 edition of Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: 17 possibly [China Room]. Four dessert plates of fayence, with figures and boys round the borders; by Pietro da Cortona: very fine. A fifth ditto with goats, a present from Lady Diana Beauclerc., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A Pair of ditto (very rare plates), Adam and Eve and the sacrifice of Isaac., and Also available as a digital reproduction.
Various jettons and counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death. Stored in an 18th-century sharkskin-covered box. Formerly located in the Tribune [Cabinet] of Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Jettons and counters
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Various Jettons and Counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death., With Horace Walpole's 1792 circular book plate (Type 1) pasted to interior of box; later partial sale [?] label on exterior, loose mss 19th c. label “King James the First and his Family Engraved on Nine Silver Plates By Simon van De Paas from Horace Walpole's Collection,, and Also available as a digital reproduction.
