A Swiss enamelled gold snuff-box set with a Portrait Miniature

PROBABLY GENEVA, CIRCA 1800

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A Swiss enamelled gold snuff-box set with a Portrait Miniature
probably Geneva, circa 1800
Rectangular oblong box with heart-shaped ends, the cover set with a rectangular portrait miniature representing a lady in red dress with white lace collar, flanked by two hearts enamelled in opaque light-green embellished with vertical engraved with gold stripes, the burnished gold sides and base enamelled with vertical opaque blue stripes
87 mm. (3 3/8 in.) wide

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