Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Snuff or Patch Box, Portrait Miniature of Marie-Antoinette, Signed Wood frame the form of the mark

Antique French Grand Tour Souvenir Snuff or Patch Box, Portrait Miniature of Marie-Antoinette, Signed Wood frame the form of the markSnuff or patch box, Grand Tour souvenir variety from the Victorian or Napoleon III era, c. 1850 70s. The portrait miniature is the type that would have been painted "aprs", or after a famous painting of this historical figure, and whose likeness was popular after a visit to Versailles or the Louvre, Paris. The form on this one is typically thought to have been a snuff box, or a box that might have come with a rosary inside, probably also ivory beaded.

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