Exquisite Louis XV tabatiere with hunting scenes. Yellow gold. Fitting curved cartouche shape with flat hinged lid. The lid and base with a remarkably banded, orange and honey-coloured, so-called coral agate set in a profiled gold mount. Two horizontally divided walls. The lower half with an extremely detailed and relief-worked, revolving depiction of hunting scenes of various game species with packs of dogs in front of a wooded landscape. Above, an architectural, rural landscape with anglers, farmers and various animals. The inside of the lid behind faceted glass with inset polychrome tempera painting and depiction of a gallant scene with two women and a man in baroque robes in front of a park landscape with fountain and antique architectural elements. Fittingly curved, delicately voluted push-piece. With old inventory numbers on the lid and inside. Weight approx. 155 g. H. 2.1 cm. 7.8 cm x 5.5 cm. Provenance: from the important collection of the Frankfurt banking family von Bethmann, which grew over generations. Cf. Claire Le Corbeiller: "Alte Tabakdosen aus Europa und Amerika", Munich, 1966, fig. 245 (wall and materials). Another agate tobacco box with miniature painting can be found in Bostons's Art Museum, inv. no. 48.1333. An exquisite German or English gold mounted hardstone snuff box with miniature painting inside. Old inventory numbers. German or English. Circa 1760.