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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1373829, member: 2844"]It is a cute handpainted trinket box for a lady's dressing table, hence the mirror. The toad in the scene is the three-legged toad, for good fortune.</p><p>Could be 1960s, but maybe [USER=85]@clutteredcloset49[/USER] knows more about the approx date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chinese take snuff from snuff bottles, not boxes.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Examples can be seen in this thread:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-snuff-bottles-cameo-carved-and.23777/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-snuff-bottles-cameo-carved-and.23777/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-snuff-bottles-cameo-carved-and.23777/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1373829, member: 2844"]It is a cute handpainted trinket box for a lady's dressing table, hence the mirror. The toad in the scene is the three-legged toad, for good fortune. Could be 1960s, but maybe [USER=85]@clutteredcloset49[/USER] knows more about the approx date. Chinese take snuff from snuff bottles, not boxes.;) Examples can be seen in this thread: [URL]https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-snuff-bottles-cameo-carved-and.23777/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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