Box

Applied Arts

Inventory number
2020.11.9.11.AA.BX.C1825.FR
Author:
UNIDENTIFIED
Description
Small casket for jewellery, in openwork brass with floral and diamond design, decorated on the lid with a rectangular reverse glass painting representing a couple of lovers in a park: a fashionably dressed man in a blue coat, red waistcoat and yellow trousers, holding a hand of a woman standing on a bridge in a blue gown. The picture is framed with embossed goldenĀ paper. The miniature is signed in mirror effect on the bottom left.
Materials
Brass
Glass
Origin
circa 1825 France
Dimensions
Width : 6.5 cm
Length : 9 cm
Height : 5.5 cm