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Vallayer may have made the whole box and de Villiers may just have had it assayed, or de Villiers may have made the frame for Vallayer's panels.  The box is decorated with a number of mythological and allegorical scenes. Upon the lid, the goddess Minerva is depicted. Minerva was the virgin Roman goddess of warriors, poetry and crafts.  \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.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"Rectangular gold snuffbox, each side of which is set with a panel decorated in mother-of-pearl and various other shells with allegorical scenes. 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S.J.  Phillips, London, 1995.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Gold panels inlaid with mother-of-pearl and various other shells, mounted in a cagework of enamelled gold, Paris, 1747-8, Claude de Villers and Joseph Vallayer","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Snowman, A. Kenneth. <u>Eighteenth Century gold boxes of Paris</u>, London: Robson Books, 1974, no. 45-6. ISBN. 0903895293"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Truman, Charles.<u>The Gilbert collection of gold boxes, volume II</u>, London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 1999,  cat. no. 1, pp. 11-12.  ISBN.0856675210"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Zech, Heike. 'Goldboxes in the Gilbert Collection at the V & A'.   In : <u>Art Antiques London</u>.  Catalogue of Art Antiques London, incorporating The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, 10 June - 16 June 2010.  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