the cover and base with an enamel oval reserve painted in brown on beige-pink with a moss agate effect, dark blue guilloche ground, the borders alternating red circles with turquoise colour ovals, similar to sides
Length 7cms / 2¾''
Width 5.4cms / 2 1/8''
Depth 2.5cms / 1''Weight: 102g
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),