Snuffbox with Mars saying goodbye to Venus while Amor tries to stop him. The scalloped box, with a straight back, has a hinged lid. The bottom is surrounded by a profile edge. It contains a plate, driven by an asymmetrical fantasy structure built from volutes that is decorated with rocailles and leaf vines. Inside the building is an asymmetrical vase, from which a flower garland descends, which is held up by a boy sitting on the floor with a flower basket. The wall of the box describes a faint S-curve and is driven on all sides with asymmetric, irregularly shaped fields with representations on

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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