A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED TRIANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
PROBABLY LATE 18TH CENTURY, PERHAPS ST. PETERSBURG
One side painted with two officers fighting on horseback, another side with two commanders overseeing troops going to war, the other with two officers at rest near a barn, with a gilt gadrooned footrim, the base with a loose bouquet of flowers, the cover with an officer on horseback by a tree, the interior of the cover with a battle scene, the interior of the box richly gilt (slight chipping to rear corner of footrim, some wear to gilt footrim, mount re-attached)
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) wide overall
A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED TRIANGULAR SNUFF-BOX AND COVER
PROBABLY LATE 18TH CENTURY, PERHAPS ST. PETERSBURG
One side painted with two officers fighting on horseback, another side with two commanders overseeing troops going to war, the other with two officers at rest near a barn, with a gilt gadrooned footrim, the base with a loose bouquet of flowers, the cover with an officer on horseback by a tree, the interior of the cover with a battle scene, the interior of the box richly gilt (slight chipping to rear corner of footrim, some wear to gilt footrim, mount re-attached)
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) wide overall
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