original red morocco leather fitted case The lid is engraved: À Mon.r / Mon.r Robert Müller d’Edimbourg / de S.M. Fredèric VI Roi de Danèmarc / Copenhague Avril 1832 Robert Müller was an Edinburgh-based piano teacher. Among his pupils was Anna Robena Laidlaw (1819–1901), to whom Robert Schumann (1810–1856) dedicated eight Fantasiestücke (Op. 12, 1837). For another example of a Flemish genre subject by Berneaud, mounted on the lid of a contemporary Hanau snuffbox, see Christie’s, London, 7 June 2011, lot 341. By coincidence this box was also a royal presentation piece, given by Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia (1770–1840) to J. Alberty in 1839.

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