A MENNECY SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX

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A MENNECY SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1760, THE MOUNTS WITH THE DÉCHARGE POSSIBLY OF J.J. PRÉVOST, PARIS 1762-68

Modelled as a half-length figure of a woman, her hands clasped to her chest, in a pink-flowered yellow dress with blue and white fichu enriched with gilding, the cover moulded with basket-weave and painted inside and out with flower sprays (rubbed)--2¼in. (6cm.) high