French Souvenir Verre Eglomise Box and Cover, Sacre Coeur de Montmatre, circa 1900

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French Souvenir Verre Eglomise Box and Cover, Sacre Coeur de Montmatre, circa 1900

This box, and others like it, was probably made in France as a tourist souvenir in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Formed as a small casket, the base is of pressed brass with relief decoration and four small pad feet. The lid has a ‘verre eglomise’, or reverse painted glass, bevel edged panel set in a brass mount and the box is lined inside. Some of the decoration of the lid is probably transfer with other elements hand painted on the back of the glass in true ‘verre eglomise’ style. The scene depicted is the well known Basilica of Sacre Coeur situated on the top of Montmatre, one of the most frequently visited sites in Paris and therefore eminently suitable as the subject for a memento of the ‘great city’. This is the ‘Grand Tour’ style rather towards its end with cheaper materials and a more mechanical method of production but an authentic example of a period souvenir to tempt the traveller.
Size: 5 x 7 x 4.5 cm
Weight: 90 grams
Date: 1900
Condition: Good condition generally; one foot slightly bent (see image 8)
Estimate: £40 – 60

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