NÉCESSAIRE DE DAME conservé dans un coffret à doucine entièrement marqueté

LADY'S NECESSARY preserved in a casket with doucine entirely inlaid with brass on a red tortoiseshell background of scrolls and foliage. Interior provided with a mirror and lined with red velvet. It includes two tortoiseshell reels enriched with rose gold, six others in marine ivory, a salt bottle in cut glass and vermeil, a vermeil inkwell and hourglass, two pairs of scissors, a needle case, a mechanical pencil, a small thread hook, a punch, a vermeil thread-pass and a precious thimble in yellow gold enriched with green gold and finely chased pink gold. Unidentified goldsmiths, various punches. Napoleon III period
Height : 16 cm - Width : 36 cm Depth : 26 cm (Wear, lacks, accidents)