A Large Varicolour Gold Box, Late Nineteenth Century

oval, the lid centred with an oval vignette chased with a parrot perched on a branch of a tree, on a plinth behind fruit and a well, the ground engraved with a hatched lozenge pattern around flowerheads, framed with trailing flower borders, the sides and base similarly decorated around central oval cartouches with fruit still lives or architectural elements, apparently unmarked

3 ⅞ in., 9.8 cm wide