Tobacco box

 

Manufacture Royale de Sèvres, France, ca. 1770

 

Glazed and painted porcelain

H: 5.5 cm

Markings: two interlocking “L”s (Sèvres) in blue

UMP 7212

 

Pâte dure porcelain tobacco box with painted and relief gilt ornamentation. Gilt silver mounts. Copy from the second half of the nineteenth century, perhaps by Samson Ceramics.