A LOUIS XVI VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, POSSIBLY PAUL ROBERT (1747-1779), MARKED, PARIS, 1774/1775, WITH THE CHARGE MARK OF JULIEN ALATERRE 1769-1774, STAMPED ON THE FLANGE 51

A LOUIS XVI VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, POSSIBLY PAUL ROBERT (1747-1779), MARKED, PARIS, 1774/1775, WITH THE CHARGE MARK OF JULIEN ALATERRE 1769-1774, STAMPED ON THE FLANGE 51
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with sablé panels finely chased with trophies from the arts, gardening and music amidst scrolling foliage, with trailing foliate, ribbon and entrelac outer borders and column pilasters, the cover centred with an oval enamel plaque after Chardin depicting a woman washing clothes, within a raised chased foliate frame
3.¼ in. (82 mm.) wide