POSSIBLY BY CHARLES-JACQUES DE MAILLY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1775

For comparable boxes, see Important Gold Boxes and Renaissance Jewellery , Christie's, Geneva, 12 November 1985, lot 67, and exhibition catalogue, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1991, p. 377 and title page, illustrated. For another comparable box, which had been given to Leon Alexandrovich Narischkine by Catherine the Great on Feabruary 20, 1796, see Exhibition catalogue: Catalogue des Tabatières et Etuis des XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles du Musée du Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, 1981, No. 530, p. 337, illustrated.