A moss agate snuff box with jewelled mounts, Paris, mid-19th century

A moss agate snuff box with jewelled silver-gilt mounts, Paris, mid-19^th century

oval, all sides carved in moss agate reminiscent of a wintery forest, the hinged lid embellished with a small marcasite-set thumbpiece, French maker’s mark BJC or BC with a baton as the différent in a horizontal lozenge, post-1838 French boar’s head control mark,

6cm., 2⅜in. wide