Mennecy Porcelain Chest of drawers shaped snuffbox circa 1740 - 1750

MENNECY
Soft paste snuffbox in the shape of a chess of drawers decorated in polychromy with trompe l'oeil drawers on one side and flowers on all the others.
Silver mount with marks : Paris 1750 - 1756
18th century circa 1740 - 1750

A similar model formerly exhibited at the Rijsksmuseum in Amsterdam is reproduced in the book "boites en porcelaine des manufactures européennes au XVIIIe siècle" by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky (1985 Office du Livre page 488)
Another very similar model was in the former Firestone collection (Christie's New York 12 March 1991).