A gold and enamel snuff box, Paris, 19th century

A gold and enamel snuff box, Paris, 19th century

of oblong oval form, the lid later set with an enamel plaque painted with an allegory of geometry looking at a ground plan presented by two putti, within gold engraved interlaced border, on a dark blue translucent basse-taille enamel ground decorated with flower branches, the sides decorated with circular cartouches of allegories in gold frames between interlaced blue basse-taille enamel laurel wreaths on a reeded ground, below a border of stylised engraved Greek key pattern alternating with leaves, the base similarly decorated within polished gold bead border and centred with a basse-taille sunflower within entrelac-de-rubans frame, French prestige marks including maker’s mark, charge and discharge mark of Prevost, Paris date letter

9.1 cm., 3⅝in. wide