Tabatière rectangulaire armoriée monture en métal doré, Doccia, circa 1760

A Doccia gilt-metal-mounted rectangular armorial snuffbox, circa 1760

The box moulded with flowers and leaves tied with a bow, heightened in enamels, against a moulded shell-like ground, the cover moulded with flowers and leaves tied with a ribbon, the inside cover with the crowned arms of the Marquis Gino Pasquale Capponi flanked by scrollwork and flowers, 7.2cm by 5.5cm (cover restored, minor wear to enamels)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Aldo Pironti, Benevento (paper label no. 215 to interior);
European Private Collection since the 1980s

Most of a service with the Capponi coat of arms still remains at the Capponi family's Villa di Monsoglio in Arezzo, see L. Ginori Lisci, La Porcellana di Doccia, p.49.

The cover was broken in half and has been restored along the break line which ran from the front right corner diagonally across to the centre and ended in the middle of the back edge with some overpaint along the repair. There is a very faint associated haircrack that issues horizontally from both sides of the original break in the centre of the cover, overall ca. 3cm long.
There are typical tiny scattered spots of rubbing to the enamels, mainly to the underside of the box where it stands.

Otherwise generally good condition.