A French gold Snuff-Box

A French gold Snuff-Box
by Léger-Fortuné-Alexandre Ricart, marked, Paris, 1809-1819
Book-shaped box, the cover and back with a rectangular reserve containing an engine-turned diaper pattern surrounded by a band of chased trailing foliage on a frosted ground, the spine decorated with five rectangles decorated with lozenges, the other three sides engraved with reeding to simulate the pages of a book
54 mm. (2 1/8 in.) high
(43 gr.)