Chinese export tortoiseshell portrait snuff box, 18th Century.

Chinese export tortoiseshell snuff box, c. 1780. The lid of the box, containing a finely painted study of a girl wearing 18th Century dress, and holding a bird in a cage. This is painted in famille rose style, with the girl seated beneath a drape, and before an urn in a window. Housed beneath an original bevelled glass plate. The oval snuff box having a silver hinge.

Estimation:1.317,51€

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