"Tortoiseshell And Pique Box Naples Italy XVIII"
Rare rectangular box in tortoiseshell and piqué, Naples work from the 18th century, the lid decorated with an intertwined couple surrounded by two cherubs in a silver and mother-of-pearl cartouche, the other 5 sides decorated with silver cartouches, small accidents and lacks, nevertheless it is a rare and beautiful document of this technique called piqué which makes the scales sparkle like embroidery, it was the Neapolitans who made it a specialty, the Huguenots brought this technique to England around 1770 
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