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A GERMAN LACQUERED WOOD BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A MINIATURE
probably Northern Germany, circa 1775
Circular wooden box, the cover set with a gilt-metal-mounted circular fixé-sous-verre miniature depicting people seated around a table in a Louis XVI interior with inscriptions HARMONICA and SALLE DES CRISE; the lid, sides and base lacquered with translucent red on a guilloché diaper ground -- 64 mm diam.
probably Northern Germany, circa 1775
Circular wooden box, the cover set with a gilt-metal-mounted circular fixé-sous-verre miniature depicting people seated around a table in a Louis XVI interior with inscriptions HARMONICA and SALLE DES CRISE; the lid, sides and base lacquered with translucent red on a guilloché diaper ground -- 64 mm diam.