Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross A superb gaming chest from

A superb gaming chest from the Napoleon III era (c

the polished brass framework is very fine

very much its period in time

though there is a little darkening to the steel blades (typical of age)

Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross A superb gaming chest fromMme. de Montesson, the lovely young woman subject of our early to mid 1800s hand painted miniature portrait offered here, was the mistress of Duc d'Orleans, Louis Philippe d'Orleans. The painting is styled after, I believe, a c. 1760 painting of her by Guillaume VOIRIOT, which was called "Femme a' sa Toilette". I've included a couple of views of Mme de Montesson, the combination of which may have been the source. She wears the same outfit and holds a