A LOUIS XVI-STYLE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX the enamel miniatures signed and dated 'IHL Steiner. Paris. 1849' Rectangular box with canted corners, the cover inset with a finely painted octagonal enamel miniature with a full-length portrait of Queen Marie-Antoinette in pink dress and yellow stole standing in a park landscape with castle background, against a semi-translucent dark blue guilloché sunburst ground, within a splendid jewelled frame set with 46 old-cut diamonds (total gross weight between 15 and 17 carat), the base inset with a matching enamel plaque depicting the assassination of Caesar, the four long sides enamelled in translucent blue on a guilloché ground with engraved gold arches, the four short corner sides enamelled with animals, including a hound, a lion, a fox and a cockerel on a similar blue ground, the front side with small old-cut diamond set thumbpiece, three jewelled initials 'LLP' below 3 7/16 in. (87 mm.) wide
A LOUIS XVI-STYLE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX the enamel miniatures signed and dated 'IHL Steiner. Paris. 1849' Rectangular box with canted corners, the cover inset with a finely painted octagonal enamel miniature with a full-length portrait of Queen Marie-Antoinette in pink dress and yellow stole standing in a park landscape with castle background, against a semi-translucent dark blue guilloché sunburst ground, within a splendid jewelled frame set with 46 old-cut diamonds (total gross weight between 15 and 17 carat), the base inset with a matching enamel plaque depicting the assassination of Caesar, the four long sides enamelled in translucent blue on a guilloché ground with engraved gold arches, the four short corner sides enamelled with animals, including a hound, a lion, a fox and a cockerel on a similar blue ground, the front side with small old-cut diamond set thumbpiece, three jewelled initials 'LLP' below 3 7/16 in. (87 mm.) wide
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