Realistically carved in grey agate as a mouse after an 18th century Meissen porcelain model, the gold mounts with a band of blue enamel decorated with gold scrolls and foliage, the base in translucent brown agate carved with four mouse-form supports, marked on flange of base with maker's mark and French control mark
2⁵⁄₈ in. (6.7 cm.) long

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 21 November 2003, lot 251.
Acquired from D.S. Lavender Antiques, Ltd., London, 2004.

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Further similar mouse-form hardstone snuff boxes have been sold from the Rothschild Collection, Christie's, New York, 13 October 2023, lot 316, and at Sotheby's, Paris, 16 March 2005, lot 35.