A Finely Detailed & Ornate French Silver Plated Jewellery Casket sub-Antiques During this era many small

During this era many small family based companies of automata makers thrived in Paris and from their workshops they exported thousands of clockwork automata and mechanical singing birds around the world

Poster dimensions: 13 x 29 inches

or perhaps a younger male

more compact than the average example

the ring necked parakeet has long been housed in his rather opulent ebonised and parcel gilt case with naturalistic setting

A Finely Detailed & Ornate French Silver Plated Jewellery Casket sub-Antiques During this era many smallOrigin: French Period: Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 4 inches Length: 9 inches Width: 6 inches The lid with a border of intertwining flourishes, with vines, grapes, leaves, and flowerheads, enclosing a central panel composed of six medallions describing mediaeval scenes of beneficent men offering alms to the poor and needy, the medallions themselves created through the use of a single rope twist border, accompanied by