The rich tangerine orange of the ground enamel of this box was both fashionable and popular with Hanau enamellers, although less often seen on Paris boxes.
In the 1770s there was an unexplained fashion for mounting English portrait miniatures on snuffboxes made on the Continent. Whether this might be attributable to a period of peace on mainland Europe that encouraged a greater number of English people to travel abroad is not known. As the colour of the gold of the frame of the miniature is different from that of the body of the snuffbox, it is likely that the miniature was mounted later on what was originally an unadorned gold and enamel box

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