A Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Joseph-Etienne Blerzy, Paris, 1779/1780

oval, the lid applied with an enamel plaque painted with a classical betrothal with cupid in the foreground, in a gold and opalescent pink bead frame, on a translucent plum-colored enamel ground over moiré and dot engine-turning, framed by white and green entrelac enamel borders, the sides and base decorated en suite, maker's mark, charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache (1774-1780), Paris date letter Q for 1779, post-1918 French control marks, the left rim numbered: 891

Length 3 ¼ in.

8.3 cm