RARE Stunning c.1800-20 French Empire Palais Royal Sewing Nécessaire, Box, in Mother of Pearl Chest. Music Box oil painting c.1830s of a Georgian English family

of a Georgian English family

you can see a serpent getting ready to strike below his left breast

Swiss Black Forest bear made into a hollowed tobacco or cigar caddy

elevating it in space and aesthetic

RARE Stunning c.1800-20 French Empire Palais Royal Sewing Nécessaire, Box, in Mother of Pearl Chest. Music Box oil painting c.1830s of a Georgian English familyTruly rare and exquisite creation, this early 1800s French Palais Royal Empire dore bronze framed mother of pearl chest of large size is complete with original sewing tools and the music box in compartment below the sewing tray is fully intact and still works. I have seen the engraved parquet mother of pearl chests in museums, or 1 or 2 at market, but this is the first we've owned. It has the feel of a jewel more than a sewing box, and makes one