A Box Signed By Alphonse Giroux, Paris

An elegant blackened wood box decorated with stylized clovers in mother-of-pearl and brass marquetry, arranged in a regular pattern on all sides. The whole is adorned with a finely chased neo-Gothic bronze mount decorated with foliate scrolls, flowers, and symmetrical volutes, notably framing the lock and hinges. The domed lid is topped with a central turned bronze handle, resting on an openwork plate with floral motifs. The interior, lined with pleated cream satin, suggests its use as a jewelry or glove box, typical of luxury items in Parisian high society during the Second Empire. Signed on the engraved brass inner rim: "Alph. Giroux & Cie à Paris," a firm renowned for its refined furniture and objets d'art, official supplier to royalty and the Parisian elite... Read more

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