A SWISS OR GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, GENEVA OR HANAU, CIRCA 1810, STRUCK WITH A ST PETERSBURG IMPORT MARK FOR GOLD rectangular box with canted corners, the cover set with an enamel plaque painted en grisaille of Alexander and Porus, after Charles Le Brun's painting of 1673, depicting Alexander The Great amongst a group of his soldiers on horseback with others on foot carrying the exhausted Porus to surrender, in a wooded landscape, a military camp and mountains beyond, within white enamel fillets , the sides and base set with panels of horizontal and concentric reeding within black and blue taille d’épargne gold foliate borders and corner pilasters 3½ in. (90 mm.) wide
A SWISS OR GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, GENEVA OR HANAU, CIRCA 1810, STRUCK WITH A ST PETERSBURG IMPORT MARK FOR GOLD rectangular box with canted corners, the cover set with an enamel plaque painted en grisaille of Alexander and Porus, after Charles Le Brun's painting of 1673, depicting Alexander The Great amongst a group of his soldiers on horseback with others on foot carrying the exhausted Porus to surrender, in a wooded landscape, a military camp and mountains beyond, within white enamel fillets , the sides and base set with panels of horizontal and concentric reeding within black and blue taille d’épargne gold foliate borders and corner pilasters 3½ in. (90 mm.) wide
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