The snuffbox features a dark brown tortoiseshell body with a hemispherical base in a gold mount and a hinged lid. The inner surfaces of the lid and the base are polished. On the lid decorated with inlay by the piqué method, there is a shaped insert depicting a bird sitting on a tree branch and watching a hare situated on the ground among leaves and flowers. The base and the side surface of the body are decorated with a floral and decorative piqué ornament and six trapezoidal gold appliques with relief compositions depicting animals and musical trophies, radiating from a central insert with an image of flowers and leaves. The rim of the lid and the shaped projection for opening are smoothly polished.

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