"Very Beautiful Charles X Jewelry Box, Animated Profile In Rosewood Lemon Marquetry"
With a beautiful and elegant shape, this precious jewelry box with fine implications of lemon tree; rosewood, mahogany and ebony is remarkable for its shape with complications, both on the profile and on the lid, closing with its small key, this beautiful box of incredible refinement is original and daring in its design, its drawing and the choice and arrangement of its precious woods, make this beautiful object an effect of delight specific to this period of innovation where the box finally took on its full importance, in a varied and equally neat register by cutting techniques perfected by the innovation of machines and their technique perfected in precision ... A precious help for the Artists who gave themselves to it with passion. The fine lemon ebony fillets, the border sausages alternating with red mahogany, the carefully crafted lid frames with checkerboard complications, the fine front of the box with delicate patterns and the delightful lemon wood lock entry in the shape of a shield in the rosewood veneered belt recalling the lid... A small "masterpiece" of elegance and preciousness, in good condition...