Lot 17
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Powder box
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Powder box

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Powder box
French; early 19th-century, with coloured transfer-decorated glass lid on white background, depicting a kneeling cupid projecting a lantern image on clear glass window, opening in three sections, the middle section with inscription C'est L'Amour qui fait le monde â la ronde, with a paper-lined powder compartment, the sides with gold painted embossed foliate pattern paper band and gilt metal rim -- 9cm. (3½in. diameter)
Literature
Magic Lanterns, Optical Toys and Cameras, 25 November 1999, lot 101.
Magic Lanterns, Optical Toys and Cameras, 12 May 2000, lot 60A.
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Lot Essay

By rotating the middle compartment, a different face and name appear in the window. The six faces depicted are:

Potier Petites Danaides
Melle. Mars: Fille d'Honneur
Perlet: Gastronome
Mm. Paradol: Elisabeth
Vernet: M. de Goujons
Mme. Gavaudan: Chaperon

A similar powder box with a different design was sold in Magic Lanterns, Optical Toys and Cameras, 12 May 2000. The lid showed cupid projecting images with a lantern, watched by a pair of lovers.

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