THE BOX MARK OF CHARLES COLINS SÖHNE, HANAU, CIRCA 1830; THE MOSAIC SIGNED DM, PROBABLY FOR DOMENICO MOGLIA, ROME, CIRCA 1830

The source for this scene is attributable to Wenceslaus Peter (1742-1829), a popular animal painter who worked in Rome. Two snuffboxes with mosaics based on the same source at the Victoria & Albert Museum are illustrated in Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection, 2000, figs. 18 and 111.