Double snuffboxes served to contain two flavours of snuff but were of necessity bulkier than single boxes. This elegant and easy-to-hold form is said to have been a model designed by Johann Joachim Kändler (1706–1775) at Meissen.The box is painted with sprays of summer flowers on a bianco-sopra-bianco basketwork ground and the interiors of the two lids are painted with Watteau scenes, with contemporary wavy gold mounts.
Double boxes of this form in porcelain are rare, but the shape can more often be found in boxes of painted enamel made between 1750 and 1760. They are quite clearly German, but their decoration would suggest they originate from different centres.

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