Les motifs de cette boîte peuvent être attribuée à Carlo Carlieri, actif à l'Opificio de 1802 à 1819. Ce style s'inscrit dans le retour des compositions néoclassiques dans la pietra dura florentine suite aux découvertes archéologiques, et introduites dans l'Opificio par le peintre Antonio Cioci (1722-1792). Ces compositions seront reprises par son successeur, Carlo Carlieri (1781-1822) et devinrent très prisées sous l'ère napoléonienne. Cette tabatière est à rapprocher de celle vendue chez Sotheby's, Londres, 7 juin 2007, lot 96. Pour des comparatifs, voir Anna Maria Giusti, Il Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure a Firenze, 1978, vol. I, figs. 469-478 ; vol. II, p. 84 et Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, vol. I, 1991, p. 4.
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