French School. Late 18th or early 19th Century Watercolour on ivory allegorical painting set in lid and glazed. Set in turned walnut box, lined with tortoiseshell. The scene depicts a memorial, doves (symbolic for love) dog (symbolic for fidelity), trees, a river and an open circular building in the distance. Circular, 2.5 cms. high ((1 inches), 9 cms...

English School, c. 1770 Tortoiseshell, brass, ivory, and polychrome and lacquered papier mache. Circular box, lined in tortoiseshell, the exterior papier mache painted in an alternating stripe pattern, the entire embellished with brass and the lid inset with a portrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a blue gown with white fichu. Circular miniature 6.5 cms. diameter (2 1/2 inches). Box 4 cms. high (1 5/8 inches)...

French, late 18th Century. Wood, toroiseshell, and ivory portrait miniature box. The circular box is painted with pink, blue and white stripes and zig-zags outside. The lining is tortoiseshell. The lid is inset with an ivory miniature of a young woman dressed in blue. This box is very unusual and is n lovely condition. Box, 6 cms. diameter (2 1/4 inches). Oval miniature, 3 cms. diameter (1 1/4 inches)...

Continental School, c. 1800 Watercolour on ivory portrait miniature mounted into the lid of a tortoiseshell box. The portrait miniature depicts a noble lady and gentleman in a rural setting, who have just desended from a coach, with two servants in a castle in the background. Blue sky with clouds. Circular, 5 1/2 inches diameter. Tortoise shell box, with gilt brass mounts, 3 inches diameter...