Rare Fine 9 Painting Louis XIV Subject Jewelry Casket, Box, Coffret - Portrait Miniature fruit and the tray holding cheese

and the tray holding cheese and petit-fours

This is truly magnificent

and strong period silk thread on spool for final restoration

5 rue Froissart

a bodicer of magnificent effect

Rare Fine 9 Painting Louis XIV Subject Jewelry Casket, Box, Coffret - Portrait Miniature fruit and the tray holding cheeseThe painting you remember from the Palace of Versailles: A stunning miniature of the famous painting "Jean Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV", c. 1667, by by Henri Testelin (1616 1695) (A big portion of the lecture at Chteau de Sceaux, Hauts de Seine, 6 miles from central Paris), is the top of this 19th century Grand Tour souvenir jewelry box, casket, and 8 smaller miniature portraits surround it,