A Four-Colour Gold Snuffbox, Nineteenth Century in Earlier Taste

oval, all sides centred with medallions chased with trophies of music, art, science, travel and gardening en quatre couleurs on a sablé ground, framed with ribbons and laurel, on a reeded engine-turned ground, within chased ovolo borders, the sides further embellished with drapery-hung dividers, French prestige marks including charge mark of Jean Jacques Prévost (1762-1768), post-1918 eagle's head control mark for 18 ct gold,

Length 3 ¼ in., 8.3 cm.