Stobwasser

Round snuff box with a very fine painted szene of the gods Mars and Venus in the clouds, given a garland of flowers by amor standing on the right. In the background two doves. Painted after a painting by Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (1477-1576). In the cover marked in red ’Mars und Venus’, at the bottom ‚10525 Stobwassers Fabrik’. Johann Heinrich Stobwasser (1740-1829) was the founder of one of the most important japanning factories of the day. The main factory was in Brunswick, a subsidiary one was established in Berlin in 1772. They specialized in small objects, notably boxes very finely painted with portraits, landscapes, mythological scenes after Old Masters, sentimental genre scenes, etc. They soon became one of the most important japanning factories of the day with a broad aristrocratic clientele such as the Princely house of Weimar, the Prussian court or the daughter of the Tsar Maria Pavlovna (1787-1859), who bought many pieces for the castles in and around St. Petersburg. But even the upper middle class, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller...

The black papier mache snuff box inscribed top interior '164. William IV King of Great Britain'. The bottom interior inscribed '164 Stobwasser F...

A very fine and decorative German polychrome- and gold-decorated oval metal tray from the early 19th Century by the workshop of Stobwasser, Berlin. Dec...