Romantic Beauty Box Filled With Two Silver Eyeshadow Boxes In The Shape Of A 19th Century Dog House

A rare and beautiful beauty box for a young woman from the Napoleon III period in the shape of a dog kennel richly decorated with finely chiseled patinated copper and bronze. A curiosity piece, this case covered in blue silk padded at the bottom, also serving as a jewelry box on the front. Behind a honeycomb compartment to receive very beautiful solid silver chiseled stoppered makeup boxes edged with braided ribbon on the top, the body reveals the control hallmarks as standard at that time. The interior is neat and entirely covered, it is visible when opening the roof of the kennel which tilts to the back using a long brass hinge; all the details are there, whether it is the roof battens with their protruding angles in bronze sausage reinforcing the angles, the roof ornaments with copper bands perforated with quadrilobed and studded openwork with an equidistant ornamental sion and the cartridges cut out of the front and side faces. The entrance decorated with a bossage where rests a perforated brass seal, removable imitating the dog's watering hole. A pure object born from the Romanticism of the 19th century, an idea of a gift that was offered to a young "Princess" before she became a Woman". A beautiful and charming object innate to the child's imagination and so touching...