A Private Collection of Snuff Boxes & Bonbonnières - 25 Apr 2017
A large Birmingham or South Staffordshire enamel snuff box
A large Birmingham or South Staffordshire enamel snuff box,
c.1765-70, of shaped rectangular form, the cover painted with three figures reclining in a garden setting, one lady with a tame bird perched on her right hand, a picnic basket tucked in one corner, reserved in a raised gilt scrolling cartouche on a white ground, the sides with further panels of courting couples and other figures, the base decorated after Robert Hancock with two chaffinches pecking over an upturned basket of fruit, with chased gilt metal mounts, 9cm across.