Circa 1800, rectangular form with cut corners, the hinged cover featuring a translucent cobalt blue enamel over an engine turned "rising sun" decorative scene, the sides with lively cobalt enameling, all separated by borders of white enamel and engraved gold reserves, the cover and interior each with four hallmarks.

2.75 x 1 in.

38 dwt

An exceedingly unusual feature of this box is a sliding cover on the base that conceals three gold & enamel counters / markers.

See Sotheby's "Important Russian Works of Art, European Silver, and Vertu," lot 180, 8 April 2014, for a Neoclassical snuff of similar restrained elegance.

Scratching to underside - to be expected; some minor scuffing to sides and minimal scuffing to top.

$2,000 - 4,000