A gold snuffbox with cylindrical body, featuring panels of banded agate in shades of greyish-brown decorated with stone inlay, and equipped with a hinged lid. The interior frame features reeded, wavy borders. Beneath the lid is a mirror-polished gold tobacco compartment. The center of the lid features a circular gold medallion depicting the figure of a chimney sweep in black onyx with a ladder and a brush, standing on a tiled floor of polished and engraved gold squares arranged in a checkered pattern. The medallion is enclosed within an inlaid ornament of carnelian ribbons. The side surface and the bottom panel of the base are decorated with carnelian ribbons interwoven with hematite leaves and lapis lazuli flowerheads. The edges of the base and lid feature a gold mount with chased ornament.

minimize...