Gold snuff box with a passionate representation of Vertumnus and Pomona, accompanied by Venus and Amor. The rectangular box, with swiveled corners, has a hinged lid. He rests on a profiled stand ring. The wall of the box describes a faint S-curve. The lid has a profiled edge with a raised, sculpted lip on the front. In the border is a plate with a passionate depiction, probably by Venus and Pomona, with a female figure with a lion and a boy pulling her dress in the foreground. The performance is placed in an asymmetrical frame made up of C-volutes, a capital, rocailles and vines and flowers. In the figure that Pomona is believed to have, a basket of flowers has been placed in the frame. The background is roughened. Against the underside of the plate is a second, completely smooth plate, Vertumnus and Pomona, Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute), Jean Saint (attributed to), 1750, gold (metal), h 2.3 cm × w 6.1 cm × d 4.4 cm × w 68.0 gr w 5.2 cm × d 3.5 cm
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