the cover featuring an oval scene from antiquity, men in classical style military dress and statesmen-like robes, the figures gesticulating, similar to the base, the sides with four scenes featuring motherly women and babes; dressing-up and a soldier slain, the gold borders with trailing bands of fluted ovolo and garlands in rose, lemon, white and yellow gold, upon a reeded ground, similar to the sides and with swags and floral pendants, with partially rubbed maker's mark ending in "p" later struck with a Parisian restricted warranty mark for gold, 1838-1847 Length 8.3cm / 3 1/8''
Width 6cm / 2 3/8''
Height 3.7cm / 1�'' Weight: 182g
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,
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,