the hardstone cover and base panels with light through dark brown markings and dendritic features, reeded gold rims, scallop thumbpiece, the gold sides chased and engraved with bands of flowerheads, building features, scrolls with rocaille and a scallop shell, all on a stipple groundLength 6.6cm / 2 5/8''
Width 4.5cm / 1¾''
Depth 1.5cm / 5/8''Weight: 63.5g
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),