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A Continental porcelain box
with hinged cover and inner cover, painted to the exterior en gisaille with scenes of putti at various pursuits reserved on a blue-ground enriched in gilt with a diaper and ovolo pattern, painted to the interior with a scene of putti garlanding an urn, with gilt-metal mounts, the inner cover gilt with flower-sprays -- 4¾in. (12.1cm.) wide, the porcelain possibly 18th century, the mounts and some of the decoration later
with hinged cover and inner cover, painted to the exterior en gisaille with scenes of putti at various pursuits reserved on a blue-ground enriched in gilt with a diaper and ovolo pattern, painted to the interior with a scene of putti garlanding an urn, with gilt-metal mounts, the inner cover gilt with flower-sprays -- 4¾in. (12.1cm.) wide, the porcelain possibly 18th century, the mounts and some of the decoration later