19th C Burl Wood and Napoleon III Marquetry Inlay Perfume Box with Key Vintage

19th C Burl Wood and Napoleon III Marquetry Inlay Perfume Box with Key VintageSmall Burl Wood and Napoleon III Marquetry Inlay Perfume Box with Key Mid Late 19th C (1860 1880) English or French burl walnut and brass laid perfume casket "Double scent bottle box" Burl walnut veneer with rich patterning Engraved brass and beautiful marquetry Working lock with steel key Lined in deep red velvet and silk Two square cut glass bottles with gilt decoration on the lids hand gilded floral motifs

Antique Straight Oval Motif Salvage Piece

The engraving is executed in fine linework typical of copperplate printing

The Archangel Gabriel on the right

each fitted with a small turned wooden knob

Full leather with ornate gilt spine decoration and gilt borders on covers marbled endpapers

spouse of the purchaser

this example looks like a premiere partie type - brass inlaid into tortoisheel veneer (more prized configuration)

Cast bronze with aged patina

The miniature is set within a raised gilt bezel decorated with repeating floral and foliate motifs

Vintage Tortoise Blown Glass Vase

scroll and floral motifs

drawing on earlier quarto plates