Antique French Snuff Box, Tortoise Shell, Silver, Gold Pique, Portrait Miniature Psyche and Cupid griffin is all there

is all there

(cabinet maker) and was made to scale to exhibit the skill level he had attained by this point in his training

there is some damage to the pale blue moire silk accordion style baffles but it will still extend up a few inches

The panel is really quite astonishingly well preserved

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Antique French Snuff Box, Tortoise Shell, Silver, Gold Pique, Portrait Miniature Psyche and Cupid griffin is all thereRedheads! I love the images of Psyche and Cupid, c. 1700s to 1800s. A myriad of messages among the old French portraits of the 2, and this one is just charming! Psyche takes away Cupid's bow with one hand and his arrows with the other, a slight knowing smile on her face. Cupid, wings folded, stretches to reach for them, and the 'trouble' is at a stalemate. This depiction means love is too much trouble, or bother, and definitely a cessation is