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This technique is believed to have been developed by Heinrich Taddel or his son-in-law Johann Christian Neuber, who worked at Taddel's workshop in Dresden. The marks on the box are unusually informative for a box by Neuber: it is marked 'NEUBER', 'DRESDEN', and '20' for 20 carat gold. The cover was set later with a miniature of Charlotte Aglaé, Madmoiselle de Valois, by a follower of the enameller Jean Petitot, 1825-50.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  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