A Large Gold and Enamel Table Snuff Box, Hanau, Circa 1880 and later

cartouche-shaped, the later lid panel decorated with cast vine leaf openwork over translucent white enamel painted with roses on a moiré engine-turned ground, centered with an early twentieth-century enamel portrait miniature of a young lady with curly brown hair wearing a summer dress and hat, the baluster sides and base engraved with foliate scrolls around roses and other flowers, apparently unmarked apart from illegible traces of a control mark to base

Length 4 ⅜ in.

11.3 cm