A LOUIS XVI STRAWWORK BOX (PAILLE)

CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI STRAWWORK BOX (PAILLE)
Circa 1780
The hinged rectangular top decorated with a shepherdess conversing with a peasant and attended by her daughter, in an extensive village landscape, opening to reveal a green and red-stained interior with dressing-mirror and two hidden compartments
3in. (7.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See the catalogue note for Lot 260.

Similar boxes inlaid with romantic landscapes and peasant scenes after paintings by David Teniers the Younger and Joseph Vernet are illustrated in L. de Caunes, et. al., La Marqueterie de Paille, Paris, 1993, p. 85, fig. 76, and p. 136-37, figs. 115 and 116.

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