Fine Antique French 3" Table Snuff Box or Bonbon, Portrait Miniature with Parrot Choisy le Roi Women's work: crochet and laces

Women's work: crochet and laces made with the variable hook crochet tambour as you see it here

Why that would have been done is a mystery but it's French for sure

This is from my private stash

and the timing is right for that

but we've done our best to photograph it for your examination

Fine Antique French 3" Table Snuff Box or Bonbon, Portrait Miniature with Parrot Choisy le Roi Women's work: crochet and lacesI feel certain this is a portrait after one I've seen of either Mme Pompadour or of Miss Elizabeth, one of the lovely ladies of 1700s France, but I can't immediately access it in my head or the internet, either one. Still, that aside, it is a lovely hand painted miniature of a beauty, holding what we can assume is either a lovebird, or a dove. Beautifully crafted, signed by artist to the right at a 3 o'clock position (we've shown it in detail for your