Rectangular casket, with chased gilt-metal mounts, the cover with central rocaille handle, each panel finely painted with a neoclassical pastoral scene featuring ruins with sheep within a raised gilt cartouche on a blue ground, the cover painted with a family of shepherds and their cattle by a river before an architectural background in a raised gilt scroll and rocaille cartouche, the interior and underside with pink silk lining, containing two tea-caddies and a sugar-box with similar decoration
the casket 8¹⁄₄ in. (21 cm.) long

The Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides (1883-1962), of Buxted Park, Sussex.
The late the Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides; Sotheby's, 1 February 1965, lot 359.
Mrs. Richard Prichard; Christie's, 10 July 1991, lot 87.

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A comparable casket is illustrated by T. and B. Hughes, English Painted Enamels, London and New York, 1951, p. 138, pl. 73. For another example see also D. Hall, The Connoisseur, 'The Raby Bequest of English Enamels', December 1960, p. 239, fig. 9. Pastoral scenes and Italian landscapes by painters such as Claude Lorrain (1604-1682) perpetuated by engravers such as Francois Vivares (1709-1780) became favourite subjects with many enamel makers and were produced in an infinite variety of groupings.