A French porcelain silver-mounted circular snuffbox and a cover the porcelain circa 1740-50, the mounts circa 1744-50

the base and cover assembled, the cover decorated later, molded around the exterior and on the cover in low relief with flowering branches, birds or insects, the interior with an Oriental flowering branch issuing from rockwork and insects, the mounts marked with a Paris discharge mark for small work.

The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973

Please note that the cover enamels and the box enamels have different appearances and they are most likely matched. The porcelain has not been examined out of the mounts.The box has an extended haircrack running from the rim edge and forking into two directions on the side, across the base and up the other side. There are associated small chips to the side of the box in the back. The cover appears to have broken into three pieces and glued back.
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