Description

Late 19th Century Circa 1870

From our Jewellery Box collection, we are pleased to introduce this French Champleve and Onyx Jewellery Box. The Jewellery Box of rectangular form beautifully formed with extensive decoration to the exterior including four corner columns, each delicately inlaid with champleve enamel, four onyx panels mounted in ormolu with swirled roundels in each corner and a top Sevres style painted porcelain plaque depicting a romantic painting scene signed Carle to the bottom right. The Jewellery Box features a champleve latch to the front which also doubles as the opening tab revealing the purple velvet interior, faced in ormolu with engraved corners. The French Champleve and Onyx Jewellery Box dates to the second half of the 19th century circa 1875.

Measurements (inches) 4.33 High x 8.27 Wide x 6.61 Deep

Literature Mark Goodger 25th Anniversary Catalogue Page 72

Champlevé is an enamelling technique in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel.

Ormolu a technique of applying ground, high-carat gold–mercury to an object of bronze. The mercury is driven off in a kiln leaving behind a gold coating. The French refer to this technique as bronze doré and in English it is often referred to as gilt bronze. It is a finishing technique which adds an overall gold look to any object without the massive cost and impracticality of making an object out of solid gold. Mercury was outlawed in the 1830’s in France however it was still used until the early 1900s.

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