A Gold and Basse-Taille Enamel Snuff Box, Paris, 1748/1749

rectangular, all sides decorated to centre with figures or rams and sheep resting in landscape in dark blue and green basse-taille enamel, the base with a spinner near a tree trunk, surrounded with blossoming flowers and leaves, also in basse-taille, on a gold ground engine-turned with a hatched and flowerhead lozenge pattern, charge and discharge marks of Julien Berthe (1750-56), Paris date letter K,

Length 3 1/8 in., 8.2 cm.