A Meissen style gilt metal mounted snuff box

Second half 19th century

Second half 19th century
Cartouche shaped, painted with Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, within a scrollwork cartouche on the cover interspersed with four small panels of similar scenes in puce camaieu, the side with similar cartouches filled with Böttger lustre, another scene inside the cover and in puce camaieu on the base, the interior gilt, 7.9cm across