This box is painted with lively groups of putti frolicking in the sea with dolphins, all surveyed by a rather weary elderly triton. As indicated in the Röbbig catalogue, the positions of several of the putti on the interior of the lid derive from the composition L’Hyver, by François Boucher (1703 1770), engraved by Claude Augustin Duflos the younger (1700–1786), although involved in quite different antics. The contemporary interlaced gold mounts are also worthy of note.

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