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Description: | An oval, basket shaped box with a green ground, pinched in to mount. The lid and sides are decorated with landscape panels painted over conventional rococo pastoral scenes, in scroll borders of raised white, on a ground with a bold trellis and dot pattern. The landscape on the lid features a man fishing in a river with classical ruins on the other bank. The bottom is decorated with rosettes in raised white enamel.
Technique: enamelling
Technique: hand-painting
Material: enamel
Material: metal
snuff box made in South Staffordshire, England, Britain, Europe, (1958.616). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.11860 | Go to resource |
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