Collection
A Napoleonic cameo box
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the rectangular tortoiseshell box lined with yellow gold, its hinged lid mounted externally with two cornelian cameos depicting Plato and Aristotle in finely chased foliate gold frames bordered with opaque dark blue enamel.
Pierre Andre Montauban, Paris, 1798–1809.
8.6cm by 4.6cm by 2,2cm
Illustrated
A similar cameo mounted box by the same maker is illustrated in:
19th-Century Snuffboxes: The David & Mikhail Iakobachvili Collection, Volume II.
Edited by H.Williams, Monaco, 2025, number 80