An amusing boxwood snuff box in the form of a squatting man. France, early 19th century.
France 1810
1800 Euro
An 18th/19th Century slightly Stained boxwood briar box carved as a squatting gentleman with sulphur glass eyes. The figural snuff box depicts a fashionably dressed man, discretly ‘doing his business’. The back opens up revealing the tobacco reservoir. The interior is lined with tortoiseshell. France, early 19th century.
3,5” – 9 CM H 2” – 5 CM L 1,75” – 4 CM D
REF: M5692
