A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX, BY PIERRE-ANDRÉ BARBIER (FL. 1764-1776), MARKED, PARIS, 1764-1765, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-JACQUES PRÉVOST 1762-1768

A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY PIERRE-ANDRÉ BARBIER (FL. 1764-1776), MARKED, PARIS, 1764-1765, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-JACQUES PRÉVOST 1762-1768
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of translucent green enamel on an engine-turned ground, within scrolling green enamel outer borders, the sides later hung with gold foliate garlands, the cover centred with an oval grisaille pink enamel miniature depicting three putti within a later gold foliate wreath surround, the interior cover later engraved with the inscription 'FROM / HER MAJESTY QUEEN CHARLOTTE / TO / COLONEL PETER RYVES HAWKER, / 1st TROOP OF HORSE GUARDS'
3. 3/8 in. (86 mm.) wide

Provenance
Presented by Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), consort of King George III (1760-1820) to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ryves Hawker (d. 1790), of Longparish House, Hampshire and 1st Troop of Horse Guards, bodyguards to the monarch.