AN IMPORTANT SAXON GOLD AND HARDSTONE BONBONNIèRE BY JOHANN-CHRISTIAN NEUBER (1736-1808), SIGNED ON THE FLANGE 'NEUBER à DRESDE.', DRESDEN, CIRCA 1780 circular gold-lined box, the cover, sides and base inlaid with radiating red and mocha-coloured striated agate ribbons heightened with carnelian mounts, the sides with alternating ovolos of striated agate and polished gold set with sky-blue coloured glass forget-me-nots with green jasper leaves and inlaid with carnelian, the cover centred with an oval medallion of dendritic agate within a gold-mounted carnelian border, the base with a carnelian rosette within a laurel border of green jasper and centred by a sky-blue coloured-glass forget-me-not, within simulated pearl borders, the flange engraved 'Neuber à Dresde' 2? in. (64 mm.) diam.