A FRENCH WHITE-GROUND RECTANGULAR BOX AND HINGED COVER with a slightly domed cover painted with three figures fishing in a pond, the sides with children in landscape vignettes, one group shooting ducks, another enjoying a courtship, a third child playing the clarinet and a fourth writing on a scroll with a portrait medallion of his muse at his feet, the interior with two girls in a pastoral scene, within wreaths of turquoise, yellow and gilt scrolls and with turquoise cartouches enriched in gilding at the corners, metal hinge (restored), late 19th Century