A Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, probably Paris, 1768-1774 and later

oval, the lid later applied with an enamel plaque of a couple and a putto by a fountain, on a translucent dark green enamel ground now decorated with bright red dots over engine-turning, chased wavy borders highlighted with translucent green enamel leaves on a sablé ground, illegible maker's mark, charge mark for Julien Alaterre (1768-1774), no discharge mark, French post-1918 control marks

Length 3 ¼ in.

8.2 cm