Antique Napoleon III French Souvenir Box, Ivory, Portrait Miniature up Top, Marie-Antoinette engraving yet is easily opened

yet is easily opened

and I've really never found another like it

Figural fragments are so hard to find

I did not open her

but we did not have a large enough original era mirror to replace the black silk velvet that has been set into it's place

Antique Napoleon III French Souvenir Box, Ivory, Portrait Miniature up Top, Marie-Antoinette engraving yet is easily openedSnuff 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