Fine, rare Louis XVI gold tabatiere with miniature barrel movement Red gold and aventurine glass. Round shape with a faceted lid. Walls of intense light and dark blue aventurine glass with cloud-like, iridescent copper and gold-colored inclusions. The rims set with delicately chased and chased ornamental bands, decorated with leaf tendrils and dotted decoration. Inside a small removable miniature music box. The inside lined with silver foil. Partly cracked wall; partly indistinctly marked, tenant's stamp Henry Clavel (1783-1789) and master Jean-Francois Delanoy (active since ca. 1785), Parisian inspection mark with date; weight ca. 65 g. H. 1,5 cm. D. 4.5 cm. Cf. cat. James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Gold Boxes, cat. no. 103, ill. 2 and cat. no. 58, ill. 1; Tardy, p. 75 and Rosenberg, vol. IV, no. 6439/40; also a comparable box by the master with enamel miniature in the Musée Cognacq-Jay, inv. no. J528 A very fine and rare Louis XVI gold box with aventurin glass and small cylinder music box by Jean-Francois Delanoy (active since 1785). Wall partly cracked. Partly indistinctly marked. Parisian assay and charge mark. France. Paris. 1786.