A GERMAN GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF BOX, MAKER'S MARK FJ CROWNED INCUSE, HANAU, CIRCA 1810 |

shallow rectangular, the cover painted with two children seated in a landscape with a spaniel, decorated with bands of pale blue and white enamel, the cover and base with borders of linked white enamel flowerheads, marked inside cover with maker’s mark and two pseudo marks, the interior base marked with flowerhead and three interlaced S, the rim of the cover stamped 5289

One end with re-enameled section, color well-matched, otherwise good
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A box with similar cover and base borders by this maker is illustrated in Khalili Collections, Enamels of the World, no. 227, p. 316, where this maker is discussed and several examples of his work are illustrated.