The lid is engraved with a view of the Rialto Bridge, Venice. This box conforms, in terms of size, form and decoration – the lid engraved with topographical views – with others made in Italy in the middle of the nineteenth century. One example, the lid engraved with a view of the Castello di Pollenzo and the base with the arms of Savoy, was presented by Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia (1798–1849), to the poet Antonio Lissoni (1787–1865) in March 1844. Another, engraved with a view of Isola Bella, was formerly in a private collection.

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