Modeled resting on an oval pale-yellow cushion painted with flower sprays, the cover's exterior with two black mice foraging near plants, the interior with a scene of rats in a larder, a large sack leaning against the wall
3¹⁄₄ in. (8.2 cm.) long

S.J. Phillips, London, 1974.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.

B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, des manufactures européennes au 18e siècle, Fribourg, 1985, p. 226, no. 180.

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Another box of this form, its interior showing an anthropomorphic cat with dozens of rat traps slung over its shoulder, was in the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection and is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object no. 1982.60.357).