featuring allegories of love, the cover with central reserve chased and engraved to depict Cupid with two cherubs, Cupid about to beat upon a drum, winged heart motif and perfume burner to one side, the image garlanded by swags, flanked by scallop motifs, within a vari-coloured gold band rim of entwined circular scrolls and foliate scrolls, similar to the base, the sides with reeded columnar ground and uprights, divided vy four maskheads upon rocaille ground and with garland swags Length 8.6cm / 3 3/8''
Width 4.5cm / 1�''
Height 4cm / 1�'' Weight: 146.5g
19th century Italian rectangular gold box by Giovanni Bellezza, Milan c.1840, the cover featuring a central medallion decorated in high relief with a Medieval figural scene depicting a man and woman seated and surrounded by advisors,
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),