Each facet painted with gallants and companions in park landscapes, the cover interior stippled with a young mother breast-feeding a child within an elaborate oval gilt cartouche edged with flowers, the mount with a reeded band moulded and chased with flowers and with a slightly raised rocaille thumbpiece
3¹⁄₈ in. (8 cm.) wide overall

Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p.199, fig.130.

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A Meissen rectangular snuff-box with a related gilt cartouche on the cover interior is illustrated by Klaus-Peter Arnold, Ulla Heise and Michael Ropers (Ed.), “Ey! Wie schmeckt der Coffee süße”, Meissener Porzellan und Graphik, Zwinger July-October 1991 Exhibition Catalogue, Dresden, 1991, p. 55.