A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED OVAL SNUFF-BOX AND COVER of bombé form, painted with figures in the manner of Watteau in landscape vignettes before palaces within shaped quatrefoil cartouches with panels of Böttger lustre and gilt scrolls and shell ornament, the interior to the cover with figures before a gondola (cover cracked slight rubbing to underside), perhaps circa 1740