Bilston enamel box, Staffordshire, c. 1770.

Bilston enamel box, Staffordshire, c. 1770. The large box the cover hand painted with a romanticised rural scene of a shepherd seated before Classical ruins in a river landscape. He plays his pipe, whilst accompanied by cattle, within a white enamelled scroll panel, upon a lilac ground. The sides of the box, similarly decorated with panels of sheep, a pony and a goat. Having hinged gilt metal mounts.

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