Antique c1700s French 14k Gold Pique Snuff Box, Portrait Miniature King Louis XV Napoleonic One with a rim chip

One with a rim chip visible from the back

Just look at that detail and visage

We're not quite as religious as most but I simply love these old hand carved religious pieces and figures

After all these 200+ years

The locket has

Antique c1700s French 14k Gold Pique Snuff Box, Portrait Miniature King Louis XV Napoleonic One with a rim chipA remarkable find! Offering here a spectacular and early snuff box, a pocket snuff, 2. 75" in diameter, still in the protective presentation and travel etui. I have been told, and it does seem very likely that the portrait is a "sitting" miniature (one of a kind) of French King Louis XV in his later years. It's likely, as a nose will thicken and the mouth certainly looks right, eyes in age. Louis XV, known as Louis the Beloved, was a monarch of the