A rare South Staffordshire enamel commemorative...

A rare South Staffordshire enamel commemorative patch box, c.1801, relating to the Treaty of London, painted with a Classical maiden holding an olive branch and leaning against a marble tablet inscribed 'GB FR Peace Oct 1st', within a white jewelled border on a dark green ground, fitted with an internal mirror, some retouching to the base, 4.3cm.

Provenance: from the estate of the late Barry Lock.

The Treaty of London was signed by Lord Hawkesbury and Louis Guillaume Otto on 1st October 1801 and led to the 1802 Treaty of Amiens, which heralded a short-lived period of peace.