AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND PIQUE WORK SNUFF BOX AND COVER, NAPLES, CIRCA 1770 circular, with zigzag patterned rim mounts, the cover inlaid with a view from Naples looking east over shipping towards a smoking Vesuvius and the Sorrentine peninsula, the Castel Nuovo to the right, the mole lighthouse to the left under a smiling sun, the sides with vignettes of the bay from the sea and nearby islands amidst a variety of insects, the underside with further islands, insects and birds 7.5cm diameter Literature: illustrated and referenced in Howard Ricketts' 'Objects of Vertu', London, 1971, p.62