"Veuve Duvinage Alphonse Giroux, Son, 19th Century Tripod Cup"
Widow DUVINAGE-Alphonse GIROUX, son, 19th C. Tripod cup, the base inlaid with veneer on an ivory base with Japanese-style decoration of a bird on a leafy branch, the partly gilded bronze mount resting on three ibis-shaped feet. Base monogrammed FD Bté » for Ferdinand DUVINAGE Breveté (Patent filed by his widow in 1877). Reverse signed Alph. GIROUX Paris. 9 x 23 cm some lifting, a loss in the wood and NOT in the ivory. oxidation