A Prussian blue-painted metal strongbox, the hinged rectangular top with canted angles, surmounted by female portrait masks, cast with acanthus scrolls and centred by a hinged stepped dome within acanthus- cast finial enclosing a locking mechanism, the shaped sides surmounted with pierced shells and c-scroll cast lockplates, suspending black and gilt bale handles, the serpentine base with double eagle gilt-metal key escutcheon, flanked by pierced gilt-painted hasps and by keeled acanthus cast gilt-metal angles, on a moulded plinth with stylised paw and ball feet, 37in. (94cm.) wide