Toilet box lid

Lid for a circular silver toilet box decorated with Procris giving her husband Cephalus a dog and a javelin, derived from illustrations to Ovid’s Metamorphoses by the Italian artist-engraver Antonio Tempesta, with reeded lip and foot and a running design with cupids among acanthus sprays in repoussé around the side: English, London, c. 1680

Toilet box lid

Lid for a circular silver toilet box decorated with the hunters Meleager and Atalanta with the head of the Calydonian boar, with reeded lip and foot and a running design with cupids among acanthus sprays in repoussé around the side: English, London, c. 1680