A vari-colored gold snuff box set with grisaille panels

rectangular with cut corners, mounted en cage under glass with grisaille miniatures of the Rape of Europa (cover), a garden with fountain and temple (base), the sides with pairs of playful putti separated by trophies of music and love, in the manner of De Gault, the gold mounts chased with borders of running foliage and leaf tips, struck with prestige marks for Eloi-Denis Thierry, Paris, 1774