Fine Antique French 3" Oval Table Snuff Box, Bonbon, Kiln-fired Enamel Portrait paperweight and for all good reason

and for all good reason

To find one in such large size is thrilling

I've shown a photo of the frame taken apart so you can see how it is hand-crafted

Oil on panel

boulle medallions on the two front doors and top drop-down cabinet door

Fine Antique French 3" Oval Table Snuff Box, Bonbon, Kiln-fired Enamel Portrait paperweight and for all good reasonA museum quality late 1700s to earliest 1800s French bonbon or snuff box with a familiar image, but I can't immediately access it in my head or the internet, either one. Still, that aside, it is a lovely hand crafted kiln fired enamel plaque miniature of a beauty, holding what we can assume isa pose over the fire of love atop a tomb of mourning if only we had the full story, huh. Beautifully crafted, a most difficult process, indeed**. Full