Tabacchiera 
A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted erotic snuff-box
Circa 1740

The scene painted in enamel on the lid by Philipp Ernst Schindler II (1723-93) is adapted from an engraving by Michel Aubert published in 1733. It shows Venus with her chariot drawn by swans finding the body of her lover, Adonis, who died while hunting.