Of ‘cartouche’ form, possibly painted by J.G. Heintze, the cover with the port in Naples, the front, reverse and base with river landscape vignettes with merchants and figures by boats and dilapidated buildings, the fluted sides with Gitterwerk flanking baskets of flowers and scrolls to the central flutes, the cover interior with a gentlemen and two ladies seated at a table and smoking pipes, an open snuff-box on the table, the box interior richly gilt
4⁷⁄₈ in. (12.4 cm.) wide overall

Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p.186, fig.111.

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The scene on the cover is taken from Melchoir Küsel’s etching ‘Mohle zu Neapoli sambt der Cinosura und dem Castell novo’ from part four of Iconographica published in Augsburg in 1682. A smaller cartouche-shaped box painted with a scene adapted from this print is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch in Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky et al., Meissen Snuff-Boxes of the Eighteenth Century, Röbbig, Munich, 2013, pp. 162-163, alongside the print.