A Gold Snuff Box, Nineteenth Century in Mid-18th Century Style

rectangular, the lid chased with an animated tavern scene around a table, one participant losing his balance on a tipping wine barrel, within chased flowers and bunches of grapes emerging from scrollwork borders, the sides and base decorated en suite with further chased figures indulging in drinking or smoking, the background with a banded trelliswork pattern, French prestige marks including a maker mark purporting to be that of Noel Hardivilliers, charge and discharge marks of Antoine Leschaudel (1744-1750), Paris date letter I for 1749,

3 in., 7.62 cm wide