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Date: Hanau around 1780
Maker’s mark: M. C. Crowned
Oval box, the cover, sides and base each set with an enamel miniature, the cover depicting a young couple fishing beside a lake, with a water-mill beside them and an arched bridge and mountains beyond, the sides and base with similar lakeside and pastoral scenes, within outer borders of chased demi-lune foliage and polished gold diaper-work, the pilasters hung with ribbon-tied chased medallions on a sable ground