Victorian Beveled Glass Jewelry Casket with Etched Floral Decoration and Silk Lining Vintage

Victorian Beveled Glass Jewelry Casket with Etched Floral Decoration and Silk Lining VintageItem: Victorian Beveled Glass Jewelry Casket with Etched Floral Decoration and Silk Lining Additional Description Elegant miniature jewelry casket constructed of beveled glass panels mounted within an ornate gilt metal framework. The hinged lid features delicate acid etched floral decoration, while the interior retains its original padded satin cushion designed to cradle rings, brooches, earrings, or other treasured keepsakes. Raised on decorative

Multiple museum/catalog records match

reflecting the Victorian and Napoleon III taste for ornament in even the most utilitarian objects

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Item: Signed Pastel Landscape Tondo (circular art) in Carved Circular Frame (19" diam)

Both objects show surface wear

Solid plank backboard (hand sawn)

History: Louis XV-style furniture

19th C Chromolithograph of a Rococo-Revival interior

Le Creusot had a royal crystal factory (Manufacture des Cristaux de la Reine) established around 1787

During the twentieth century

Lips studied in Zürich and Rome

The interior is lined in rich crimson velvet and retains its working lock