Tobacco box

Manufacture Royale de Sèvres, France, ca. 1770

Glazed and painted porcelain

H: 10.7 cm

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

UMP 7229

Pâte dure porcelain tobacco box painted with coloured enamels and gilt relief. An eliptical box decorated on bleu de roi (royal blue) ground. A romantic miniature is painted on the cover. Gilt silver mounts. Copy from the second half of the nineteenth century, perhaps by Samson Ceramics.