Antique French Pill, Patch or Snuff Box, Engraved, Jean-Baptiste Greuze Milkmaid bag on that long elegant walk

on that long elegant walk from the Louvres Palace to the Arch de Triomphe

And it's time to downsize and so my own stashes of antique jewelry will be hitting market in week and months ahead

it might well have been stored away for 150 years or more

This is a c

fireplace mantel perhaps and the shelf surfaces are quite expansive at 13 1/8" deep and 12 5/8" wide

Antique French Pill, Patch or Snuff Box, Engraved, Jean-Baptiste Greuze Milkmaid bag on that long elegant walkWhat an opulent little box this is. A snuff perhaps, or patch or pill box, it's the art work on top that most interests me. This is a remarkably little acid etching of the original 1700s painting, The Milkmaid, by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1743 1784). The large original painting of this scened hangs in the Louvre, Paris. We've had it in miniature paintings done for the 19th century Grand Tour trade, but I've never seen it treated in this manner. Perfect