the cover and base centred by sable panels with chased vari-colour gold trophies, the cover featuring flowers, foliage, a bow and quiver of arrows, similar to base with a basket of fruit, both within wreath and foliate frames and borders of polished gold with bright cut bands, the fluted sides spaced by pendant husks in lemon gold Length 7.6cm / 3''
Width 5.6cm 2�''
Height 3.6cm / 1 3/8'' Weight: 136.5g
19th century chased rectangular gold box mounted with a micromosaic of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, the box by Jean-Baptiste Fossin, Paris 1819-1838, the mosaic Italian. c.1810,