An oval-shaped snuffbox, with panels covered with gray translucent enamel on guilloche, with a hinged lid. In the center of the lid, there is an oval miniature in the grisaille technique depicting two cupids, one of whom is burning hearts on an altar, while the second watches what is happening, sitting by the altar. The miniature is framed by a wreath with a chased pattern of leaves and a bow at the top, covered with green enamel, a polished groove and a strip of white enamel. The lid is decorated along the edge with a rim of a strip of white enamel and a leafy garland. The rim of the lid is decorated with an intertwined leafy garland and gold egg-and-dart (ionics) on a matted (canfarent) field.Under the lid, there is a compartment for tobacco with marks on the mirror-polished surface of the base and the lid. The lower panel and the plaques of the side surface, covered with gray enamel on guilloche, are framed by polished grooves, strips of white enamel and a border with a chased relief leafy ornament of green enamel.

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