Fine Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Purse, Tortoise Shell 18k Pique, Eglomise of Luxembourg Palace French eagle's head 18k beautiful scrolls with reticulated vines

beautiful scrolls with reticulated vines with acorns

JOHANN AUGUST: active in Leipzig at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century

which is a larger bear by most standards

they appear to have been stored rather than used

A very interesting piece

Fine Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Purse, Tortoise Shell 18k Pique, Eglomise of Luxembourg Palace French eagle's head 18k beautiful scrolls with reticulated vinesIsn't it a gem! A little Grand Tour souvenir, dating c. 1850 70s, in gorgeous cognac to chocolate mottled tortoise shell with a souvenir view (eglomise back painted glass) of a rare scene: Luxembourg Palace from the gardens. The purse is beautifully preserved, obviously a very special souvenir, but the intrigue is also that in all my decades of collecting, I don't think I've even found a Luxembourg Palace painting. Just look! Elaborate pique in gold,