A navette-shaped gold and enamel snuff box, FJ, Hanau, circa 1790

Property of an Italian private collection

 A navette-shaped gold and enamel snuff box, FJ, Hanau, circa 1790

all sides decorated in translucent dark blue enamel over radiating scale engine-turning, fine gold paillon borders of plumes alternating with stylised tulip flowerheads, within opaque white enamel borders, the high sides with dividers formed of blue enamel columns on a reeded ground, maker’s mark incuse within three sunrays, the rim numbered: 952, later French hibou control marks,

9.7cm., 3¾in. wide