Louis XVI oval gold snuffbox

Oval snuff box featuring yellow, and pink gold. The hinged lid is decorated with a central medallion featuring a trophy with a quiver with bow and arrow on a gold background amati symbols of Love. The medallion is framed with both a laurel friezes and a “barley grain” motif. The decoration of the side consists of four guilloche panels decorated with antique garlands. An interlacing frieze underlines the side. The base has a guilloché decoration. Work from the Louis XVI period.
Wear to the guilloché.
Weight: 94 g.

Guarantee mark: Jean Baptiste Fouache, 1775-1781
Charge mark: Crowned P, 1778.
Release mark: Tête de singe (Monkey head) 1775-1781
Master goldsmith mark: illegible.