Exceptionaly in the history of porcelain snuff-boxes, the present example is almost identical to another in the Wallach Collection and formerly in the Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild collection. Both boxes depict Carl Theodore and his consort Elisabeth Auguste and the remaining surface decoration shows the same subjects with minor variations. For the Wallach box and illustration of its details see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, op. cit., pp. 138 & 9. It is conceiveable that they were intended as a pair as gifts to or from Carl Theodore and his consort