chased and engraved, each panel centred by a four colour gold trophy variously featuring goats, sheep, dog, classical ruins, foliage and the like, symbolising hunting, gardening, music and others, each trophy upon a bright cut horizontal line ground, within scroll cartouche border Length 7.8cm / 3 1/16''
Width 5.8cm / 2�''
Depth 3.7cm / 1�'' Weight: 189g
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),
19th century Russian carved rock crystal and gold mounted box by Otto Samuel Keibel, St. Petersburg c.1840, engraved with the arms of Prince Stroganov,