, of elongated octagonal shape, the hinged cover with gold mounts chased and engraved with flowers and trailing foliage on a sable ground, to a gold lined interior
Width 9.5cm / 3 3/4'' Weight: 142g / 4.57oz
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),