A gold and enamel snuff box, 19th century in earlier style

A gold and enamel snuff box, 19th century in earlier style

oval, the lid and base centred with an oval enamel plaque enamelled en grisaille against a pink background, representing a young couple in love and a weaver à l'antique next to a flower basket, both in a ribbon-crowned chased laurel wreath, on a ground of translucent green enamel bands forming a chequered pattern, within green basse-taille enamel Greek key border, the sides similarly decorated, French prestige marks, further numbered: 1151

5.9 cm., 2⅜in. wide