An Oval Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Paris, 1776/1777

oval, the lid later set with an earlier enamel portrait miniature of Louis XIV, on a translucent mauve enamel ground over scale engine-turning, within white bead borders and chased outer frames highlighted in red, green and blue enamel, rubbed maker's mark ?D, charge and discharge mark of Jean Baptiste Fouache (1774-1780), Paris date letter N, post-1918 French eagle's head control marks,

2 ⅝ in.; 6.9 cm wide