A Varicoloured Gold Snuff Box, Nineteenth Century

oval, the lid chased with Ceres on a pedestal, holding a basket of flowers in front of a Roman temple, flanked by columns and below and arch hung with flower garlands en trois couleurs, the sides and base similarly decorated around chased putti at pastimes, busts after the Antique or Cupid, the dividers formed of chased alcoves around figures of saints, traces of French prestige marks including charge and discharge marks of Jean Jacques Prévost (1762-1768) and Paris date letter A,

Length 3 ½ in., 9 cm.