Antique French Napoleon III Bronze Jewelry Casket, Box, Portrait Miniature of Blue Eyed Beauty kiln-fired enamel box and is set in 18k

and is set in 18k gold as a brooch

Charming poses and quite unique early frames of thick wood with pressed brass front plaques

with some age as you can see in the images

I can tell it's been impressed in sealing wax at least once

will not come out

Antique French Napoleon III Bronze Jewelry Casket, Box, Portrait Miniature of Blue Eyed Beauty kiln-fired enamel box and is set in 18kFabulous antique French Napoleon III era jewelry casket, a serpentine shaped gilded bronze box with stunning hand painted portrait miniature of a blue eyed beauty! One can only describe it as Rococo Revival, often overlapping with the Napoleon III or Second Empire taste in France. The box casket itself with scrolling rocaille ornamentation, dense floral chasing and repouss work with a curving or serpentine outline and highly decorative, gilded