European Casket with High Relief Dutch Genre Scenes - Multi Tone Antique

European Casket with High Relief Dutch Genre Scenes - Multi Tone AntiqueBronze Brass European Casket with Dutch Design Genre Scene Multi Tone

Palais Royal and Boulevard des Italiens districts were producing such boxes for elite clients

likely adapted from larger architectural ornament

Late 19th C or early 20th Century Boehmian or French enameled art glass (1880-1910)

Ink ownership stamp "Dr

spouse of the purchaser

Full burgundy leather with elaborate gilt tooling

The plaque features bold raised serif lettering cast into a long rectangular brass plate with rounded ends and mounting holds at either side for attachment to a wooden door

known as polychromy

Circa 1820-1880

creating a strong sense of motion and theatricality typical of late Louis XV and Louis XVI revival ornamentation

Mother-of-pearl inlaid examples were especially desirable

a French patent marking used between the mid-19th century and 1968