Antique Napoleon III French Souvenir Box, Ivory, Portrait Miniature up Top, Marie-Antoinette engraving all in all

all in all

Elegant & RARE complete 18pc set of antique French Louis XVIII to Louis-Philippe era

guilloche style engraved base and thick wheel cut & intaglio engraved glass

furnishings

The scene is right out of the Romantic Era movement of the 1700s which remains popular and is best represented by the paintings by Boucher

Antique Napoleon III French Souvenir Box, Ivory, Portrait Miniature up Top, Marie-Antoinette engraving all in allSnuff or rosary box, Grand Tour souvenir variety from the Victorian or Napoleon III era, c. 1850 70s. The portrait miniature is the type that would have been painted "aprs", or after a famous painting of this historical figure, and whose likeness was popular after a visit to Versailles or the Louvre, Paris. The form on this one is typically thought to have been a pocket watch box, or a box that might have come with a rosary inside, probably also ivory