A Gold-Mounted Hardstone Snuff Box, Nineteenth Century

oval, the double-opening hinged lid and the sides formed of mottled grey, russet and cream-coloured hardstone overlaid with gold openwork chased with classical trophies including symbols of love, travel, music, literature and theater, flanked by cornucopiae and framed with scrollwork and flower garlands, each lid with a tiny thumbpiece, the sides with a gold-framed circular aperture for the thumb, plain base, apparently unmarked apart from later control mark,

4 ⅛ in., 10.5 cm wide