The detachable cover and base are finely carved with scrolling acanthus and berries and the contemporary English gold mount is engraved with scrolling foliage on a hatched ground.
The box is gold-lined; the interior of the lid engraved with the crowned cypher of William III, 8.5cm wide.
A label inside the box is inscribed: ‘This very fine jasper Box once the property of His Majesty George the First.’
