A Gold, Enamel Snuff Box, Nineteenth Century, with An Earlier Ivory Portrait Miniature

rectangular with cut corners, all sides painted in dark brown enamel with harbour and fishing scenes near classical architectural elements and with trees and foliage imitating moss agate, over a reeded engine-turned ground, within slender white opaque enamel bands and beads, the chased outer leaf and bead borders picked out in translucent green and red enamel, the lid applied with an earlier oval portrait miniature painted on ivory, circa 1775, depicting a lady wearing a white silk dress with bow under a fur-trimmed teal overcoat, in a gold locket frame, French prestige marks including traces of maker's mark, charge and discharge marks of Julien Alaterre (1768-1774) and a mark imitating the Paris date letter K for 1773, the left rim numbered: 3461,

Length 3 in., 7.6 cm.