A GOLD ENAMEL AND SNUFF BOX, PROBABLY GERMAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

A GOLD ENAMEL AND SNUFF BOX, PROBABLY GERMAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

later painted en plein, the lid with a stag hunt, the base with an oriental hawking scene, the sides with enthusiastic green-eared hunting dogs, within multi-coloured enamel leaf and flower borders, interior of the lid with incuse maker’s mark D.S., crowned above a leaf, French post-1893 hibou import marks

8.3cm., 3¼in. wide