the cover chased and engraved with a floral spray and a butterfly on a sable gold ground, with flowers and foliage set with rubies and diamonds, the sides and base chased and engraved with classical ruins, foliage, rocaille, scrolls and shells within shaped cartouches of polished gold with reeded borders, slightly raised scroll thumbpiece Length 7cm / 2�''
Width 5.1cm / 2''
Height 2.3cm / 7/8'' Weight: 96.5g
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 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),