Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin & Miniature Painting: Love Symbols Black FOrest Very little if any nips

Very little if any nips to the superb veneer work

evaporation (if alcohol)

Unidentified but the sitter is a relatively :) handsome woman with flamboyant hat & large plum

This is from among the most magnificent panels I own and have collected myself over decades

which is also rare to find

Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin & Miniature Painting: Love Symbols Black FOrest Very little if any nipsA VERY interesting item, this! Look at the painting on the cover of this 1700s snuff box. You find there a plethora of objects, symbols, and yet it's not clear to us all these 200+ years later what story they tell. I see a pair of lovebirds or doves cooing to one another amidst items in disarray. perhaps it heralds the end of a war, or represents love in the midst of war? You see a cage on fire, a sword hanging with a red bow, a tipped over torch and