Snuffbox, c.1760 (gold with Sevres porcelain)

title: The Stag Hunt title: Paysage avec une chasse au loup translated: Tabatière After: Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 - 1755 study for Les Chasses royales Engraver: Resemblance to Nicolas Charles de Silvestre, French, 1699 - 1767 engraving, The Stag Hunt Description: French gold and porcelain box, Jean Georges, Paris, circa 1762, rectangular, mounted a cage, lined in gold, and inset with five Sevres porcelain plaques, decorated with a bleu celeste ground, overlaid with gilded scroll and dot borders, enclosing painted reserves with chamfered gilded frames depicting autumnal hunting scenes, adapted from works by Jean Baptiste Oudry 1. The Stag Hunt (cover) Two horsemen in hunting dress pursue dogs attacking fallen stag; the first astride white horse in green jacket, followed by a second, in purple jacket sounding horn. Partial resemblance to The Wolf Hunt: The Kill, Nicolas Charles de Silvestre's engraving, The Stag Hunt, and drawing and study for a tapestry belonging to the set of Les Chasses royales; La Mort du Cerf aux Etangs de Saint-Jean-aux-Bois. 2. Four dogs encircling and attacking wolf (front wall) Resemblance to Paysage avec une chasse de loup. 3. Two dogs in pursuit of fox amongst trees (rear wall) 4. Wolf with right paw caught in metal trap (left wall) Literary source: Les Fables de La Fontaine 5. Dog seated at base of tree (right wall)