Antique French Empire Portrait Miniature, Woman, Table Snuff Box, Hair Art bottles Queen's Cutlery Works

Queen's Cutlery Works

a fairly humble pair of screens - perfect for a Country French home decor whether you hang them on the wall

to rid himself of the young suitor

"Ah Le Petit Gueux Faut-Il Soit Leger" (A Light Beggar

Antique French Empire Portrait Miniature, Woman, Table Snuff Box, Hair Art bottles Queen's Cutlery WorksFrench Empire era portrait miniature, c. 1800 1815, set into the top of a generous 3. 25" diameter table snuff box of finest quality, and the underside preserves a beautiful plaiting of her hair. A sentimental memento perhaps for her husband, as was customary in its time. The painting is wonderful! She's a handsome young woman in fine French Empire fashion, a low bodice and high "Empire" waist gown which is sophisticated in its simplicity. Fine old