A Gold and Enamel Musical Snuff Box, Possibly Jean-François Bautte, Geneva, Circa 1815

rectangular, the lid engine-turned lid centered with a chased musical trophy including a harp and trumpets picked out in black enamel on a sablé ground in a lozenge cartouche, taille d'épargne enamel borders of flowerheads alternating with cones and scrolls, maker's mark B in an oval, unofficial Geneva town mark, rubbed JL (?) mark in an oval, Paris garantie, post-1918 French control marks

Length 3 ¼ in.

8.3 cm