Enamel-on-copper snuffbox decorated with young women, China, 19th century Oblong-shaped, the yellow-enameled bottle is decorated in polychrome with a young woman on each side. One, slightly swaying, carries a basket on her arm. The other is accompanied by a child holding a fish at the end of a line in one hand, while she gazes at two butterflies in flight. The neck and foot are circled in blue. It stands on an oval foot, the base enameled in white. Enamel-on-copper stopper decorated with a lotus flower. Height: 7 cm Provenance : Millon-Jutheau sale, Hôtel Drouot, July 2, 1984, lot n°187 (illustrated).