Snuff box

Description

A maple or thuja burl wood snuff ox with a relief of a rural scene ‘Les plaisirs de la pêche’, the inside horn.

French, late 18th c.

Diameter 6.9cm

Showing an angler beneath a tree by a river, talking to a washer woman, sheep to his left, on the opposite bank two figures before a chateau, engraved inscription LES PLAISIRS DE LA PECHE underneath, the reverse with a basket weave pattern relief