A jewelled three-colour gold and enamel 'tribute' portrait snuff box, late 19th century,

A jewelled three-colour gold and enamel 'tribute' portrait snuff box, late 19th century,

of elongated oval form, the lid applied with a decorative oval enamel miniature of Louis XIV, King of France, within a rose diamond frame, the ground of translucent blue enamel over striped engine-turning within broad white and gold Greek key borders, the interior of the lid with the cipher of Louis XIV below the royal crown, prestige marks includingmaker’s mark of Louis-Philippe Demay, charge and discharge marks of Jean-Jacques Prévost, Paris date letter Y for 1762, the left rim numbered: 196,

9cm., 3½in. wide