A gold and enamel snuff box, Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Co., Geneva, 1792-1801

rectangular with rounded corners, the lid set with an enamel plaque painted with an enamoured couple and Cupid with his bow and quiver in landscape near a river, an arched bridge and mountains in the background, in an opaque white enamel frame and outer black, pale blue and white taille d'épargne enamel scrollwork borders, the sides and base elaborately decorated with a pattern of dark blue wavy enamel bands highlighted with white flowerheads and translucent claret enamel over moiré engine-turning, the angles with classical taille d'épargne vases, maker's mark GRG crowned incuse, in a fitted green leather case by Garrard & Co., London,

9.2cm., 3 5/8 in. wide