of bombé form, painted in the Meissen style with rococo scenes within yellow borders on a purple scale ground, the interior of the cover with a lady and her boy servant, broken and restored

The box is broken into four pieces and with old restoration. The porcelain is a greyish hard paste with 'orange-peel glaze, similar to Thuringian types, or perhaps even Chinese export porcelain
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