Rare Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin Figural & Portrait Miniature Oil Painting, Ivory drafting Rue Halevy 8

Rue Halevy 8

Delightful antique Creil et Montereau faience earthenware or pottery three piece 7 7/8" cabinet or 'story' plate set: "Theatre Des Marionnettes" with ornate musical instrument themed blue & white borders and figural comedy scenes

sewn into perforated paper showed an elegance of skill

if you wish to wear this one

Rare Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin Figural & Portrait Miniature Oil Painting, Ivory drafting Rue Halevy 8Absolutely French, this glorious hand painted in the manner of Vernis Martin (look up the process on the internet to learn more about this favorite decorative style of Marie Antoinette), this superb large snuff or patch box is a remarkable 200 years old and more the experts invariably date these to the Louis XIV period, late 1700s to earliest 1800s. I fully agree with them, and the museum piece you see here might well have spent time at Versailles