Gold rectangular gold snuffbox featuring a hinged lid. The lid, bottom, and side walls of the body are decorated under glass with narrative watercolor miniatures on vellum depicting mythological subjects. The miniature on the lid represents Atalanta receiving the head of the Calydonian Boar from Meleager. The bottom features a multi-figure composition showing the arrival of a ship (likely the landing of Aeneas in Carthage). The four side panels feature scenes depicting embracing warriors (presumably Achilles and Patroclus at Troy), a scene of mercy on a battlefield, an Arcadian musical concert, and celestial deities hovering over a warrior sleeping on the prow of a ship. In the areas between the reserves, the gold body of the snuffbox is decorated with friezes of raised floral and geometric ornaments and a braided pattern, all executed against a stippled background.

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