Antique French Grand Tour Style Souvenir Casket, Beveled Glass & Eglomise Scene "Sacre Coeur de Montmartre"

Fabulous antique French Napoleon III to Belle Epoque era Grand Tour style souvenir jewel casket, a lovely box with eglomise (reverse painted) glass scene of the world famous Sacre Coeur de Montmartre, Paris! We recently acquired around twenty of these wonderful little French souvenir caskets and will be adding them in the coming weeks. This one with overly thick beveled glass panels on the sides and the larger top with the scene transferred & painted on the back side.

"Eglomise" is the term applied to the back-painted glass panels in these old French souvenirs. Most of them date 1800s, though they were made up through about 1910 in this manner, too. Later ones often have a photo set in instead. The early ones are our favorites, sometimes a screened ink-line like drawing that is then hand colored, or sometimes a full miniature painting original, all worked on the back side of a panel or convex plaque of glass. There are sometimes open spots left and a final step is application of thin mother of pearl panels so that the windows shimmer with pearlescent light, or architectural details are pearl - you can see how fun those are. I'm listing a whole collection from this genre, one at a time

Very good condition. Possibly a tiny nip or two to the glass panels but no larger chips or cracks. The eglomise scene is in great shape with only a few small visible imperfections. The inner base pad/lining is a newer tan moire silk. See pictures for all measurements.