Oval snuff box, painted after Johann E. Nilson
Probably Fulda, 1760/65. Mounting silver gilt (vermeil). Dimensions: 5 x 6,5 cm, 4 cm high. After engravings by Johannes Esaias Nilson (1721-88)
Top of cover: a gallant pair, after the engraving "L'invention d'une cascade" (illustrated in Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellandosen des 18. Jahrhunderts, p. 336). Inside cover: Rural feast, after the engraving "Freude in der Friedenszeit" (illustrated in Ducret, Keramik und Graphik, plate 90/1, no. 80).
A Fulda box similar in shape and painting is illustrated in Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988 no. 73, with Watteau scenes. Similar painting after Nilson on a Fulda Bowl in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Museum no. 117 to B-1872).