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 oval enamel and gold box with portrait miniature by Alexis Proffit, Paris 1786, the miniature of the duc de Penthievre by Nicholas Halle (French fl. 1782-1795),