Enamel Medal - Pandora's Box

Hello.
I have this curious antique naive enamel medal on the theme of Pandora's box with the inscription 'Curiosity Is Woman', but don't know much about it.
The person I bought it from believes it's early 19th century, but that's all the info I have.
There is also a maker's mark on the back unknown to me.
Can anyone help me identify it and perhaps some further information on it please?

 

Welcome, Agi.

In this case I think curiosity is man.

That looks right to me. It may have been inlaid in the top of a box at one time, although not Pandora's box (I hope).

 

Curiosity's likely to catch her death.

Debora

 

That looks like a Bilston made enamel plaque from the inside of a snuff box. Might be a lid but naughty images were usually inside. Late 18th, I'll bet.

http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/metalware/bilston.htm

 

Bilston style is what comes to mind, but this doesn't give me an 18th C vibe. Both the writing and the depiction of the woman seem later 20th C to me.

 

Agree. In the 18th century they were using those lower case Ss that look like lower case Fs except when S is the final letter.

 

Not always.

 

I don't know which way is the right way up, but in first orientation, as OP has it, one bit looks like an anchor to me.

 

A modern hand, to my eye.

Debora

 

I quite agree - and surely not eighteenth century, when it was still remembered that Pandora opened a jar (πίθοι) and not a box. This - like a certain ring which recently turned up on Antiquers - seems likewise to have come from the hoard of the Crackerjack Empire.
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@Agi What are the measurements of your item? How big is it?

 

An example of an 18th century hand, a period when writing was a priviledge.

Debora

 

Oh, ƒurely ƒhe can't be ƒerious!
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Goodness. How long did that take to type, switching fonts back & forth?

I remember a thread where there was a goose chase for a while because part of a box label appeared to read 'filber'.

 

MArk looks like a daffodil.

 

@Bronwen - It's an ascii code; the Unicode is 0192.

In ages dimmed to mem'ry, 'twas long and long ago, a mighty culture flourished here before.
Today we find their artefacts, as Magical as Smithy Wayland's shirt of mail - or Chrysaor!
And when Fortuna's ipsum bonum, sometimes we get the chance to own 'em - gallant artefacts like Hermes' sneakers;
Sometimes - by synchronicity - by sheer luck or duplicity - a Crackerjack appears here on Antiquers!

[With sincere, abject apologies to Silius Italicus.]
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Mark does indeed look like a daffodil.

Debora

 

Wow, it looks like I have started a fight!
Seriously though, thanks for your time and contribution everybody.
So to answer the 2 questions that came up:
The way in the original picture is the right way up.
I personally see an anchor or the initials 'JC' in the mark.
And the medal measures 46 x 64 mm.

 

It would take me so long to find the code, cumbersome as it would be, it would take me less time to change fonts in the editor.

Now there's someone/something that doesn't often get a mention. Pegasus' brother.

 

Seems like a reasonable size to have been set in a snuff box lid.

Are you sure? Marks on the back of things are not always oriented in the same direction as images on the front.