A Meissen porcelain gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1735-40

circular, painted in a palette in the manner of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, the sides and interior and exterior of the lid with harbour scenes of merchants by quaysides with their wares, the figures outlined in gilding, the interior with a moth and scattered flowerheads, the base decorated with a 'contour' chinoiserie figure in a fenced garden after Petrus Schenk, within black enamel line border, on a purple-marbled ground,

6.3 cm; 2 ½ in. diameter