Snuffbox with Mars saying goodbye to Venus while Amor tries to stop him. The scalloped box, with a straight back, has a hinged lid. The bottom is surrounded by a profile edge. It contains a plate, driven by an asymmetrical fantasy structure built from volutes that is decorated with rocailles and leaf vines. Inside the building is an asymmetrical vase, from which a flower garland descends, which is held up by a boy sitting on the floor with a flower basket. The wall of the box describes a faint S-curve and is driven on all sides with asymmetric, irregularly shaped fields with representations on a roughened ground. the field at the front, with a rocaille with volutes and leaf buds in the middle, shows two rabbits in a landscape with buildings and furthermore fruits and flowers. That at the rear shows two sheep in a similar landscape, on the left is a second, narrower field that follows the contour of the large, with a froth border and flowers. On both sides two fields with flowers and fruits, with a small field with scales in the lower right corner. The fields on the right and left side largely correspond. The lid has a profiled rim with a raised, scalloped lip on the front, driven with a rocaille and volutes. In the border is a flat with the passionate representation of Mars that goes down and says goodbye to Venus, while Amor tries to stop him. In the background priestesses watch, standing by a colonnade. The frame is made up of C-volutes with rocailles and flowers, interrupted in the middle by a woman's head with studded braids. Smooth golden plates, Mars and Venus as lovers, rocaille ornament have been applied to the underside of the plates in the bottom and lidlle., Laurence Hamond (attributed to), London, c. 1750 - c. 1755 and/or 1756, gold (metal), h 4.0 cm × w 8.1 cm × d 6.8 cm × w 184.0 gr
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