Box In Wood And Mother-of-pearl Marquetry Signed Alphonse Giroux (1776-1848)

Box in wood and mother-of-pearl marquetry signed Alphonse Giroux (1776-1848)

Alphonse Giroux was an important French cabinetmaker, painter and artist from the consulate to the restoration. He created the house of his name in 1799, of which Louis XVIII and Charles Like the great haberdashery merchants of the Ancien Régime, it sold small pieces of cabinetmaking, tablets and knick-knacks. Supplier to the Crown, the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, its success is inseparable from the rise of a new industrial art. Box inlaid with mother-of-pearl and wood, the interior sheathed in silk and chiseled bronze cladding

French work
Early 19th century
Delivered with its original keys (functional)
Signed on the bronze above the lock
Some minor gaps
Dimensions 20 x 12 x 11cm