Rare Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin Figural & Portrait Miniature Oil Painting, Ivory drafting The panel is nicely mounted

The panel is nicely mounted

but there are a few light losses of paint

wings unfurled and diving for the young kid chamois goat standing by the side of its mother

5" wide and a maximum 4" depth front to back

back & silk interior

Rare Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin Figural & Portrait Miniature Oil Painting, Ivory drafting The panel is nicely mountedAbsolutely French, this glorious hand painted in the manner of Vernis Martin (look up the process on the internet to learn more about this favorite decorative style of Marie Antoinette), this superb large snuff or patch box is a remarkable 200 years old and more the experts invariably date these to the Louis XIV period, late 1700s to earliest 1800s. I fully agree with them, and the museum piece you see here might well have spent time at Versailles