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
18th century German coloured gold rectangular box by Les Freres Toussaint, Hanau c.1760, formerly Rothschild family collection, chased and engraved with figural decoration in yellow, rose, lemon gold and silver,
Louis XVI vari-coloured gold mounted tortoiseshell and portrait miniature box by Francois Delanoy, Paris 1779, the miniature of the Comte d'Angiviller by Jean-Baptiste Weyler (French 1747-1791),
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,
19th century Russian carved rock crystal and gold mounted box by Otto Samuel Keibel, St. Petersburg c.1840, engraved with the arms of Prince Stroganov,