A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED TURQUOISE-GROUND OVAL SNUFF-BOX of bombé form, painted in the manner of B.G. Haüer, the front, back and cover with gilt quatrefoil cartouches with gallants and companions before buildings in a landscape, merchants disembarking with their wares and an estuary scene with buildings, figures and distant shipping, the base with an eisenrot harbour scene, the interior of the cover with a hunting scene in a rugged landscape, the interior of the base richly gilt (slight rubbing to back below the mount), the contemporary gold mount with scroll thumbpiece, circa 1740