A Saint-Cloud silver-gilt mounted snuff box in the shape of a dog, circa 1740A Saint-Cloud silver-gilt mounted snuff box in the shape of a dog, circa 1740Decorated in polychrome colours and heightened in gilding with chinoiserie figures, insects and foliage, the mount with a Paris discharge mark for 1738-44, 7cm long, 5cm high (fine haircrack to the back edge)A similar model with moulded prunus decoration is illustrated in B. Rondot (ed.), Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766 (1999), no. 199.