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
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),