A Jeweled Four-Colored Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Charles Colins & Söhne, Hanau, Circa 1820

rectangular, the lid later applied with a diamond-set silver and gold altar of love below a tree on a blue enamel ground, in an oval rose-cut diamond-set frame, surrounded with raised scrollwork and arabesque and trefoil borders en quatre couleurs, the sides and base similarly decorated around chevron engine-turned rose gold panels, maker's mark, Hanau control mark

Length 3 ½ in.

9 cm