Rare Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin Figural & Portrait Miniature Oil Painting, Ivory drafting A stunning and rare one

A stunning and rare one of a kind miniature furniture piece

if you wish to wear this one

The figures definitely dressed in the Brittany style so it's likely a French or Dutch piece though who can be certain

the backing for the sheaves of wheat hair ornament on the other side has been broken and is missing part of that opalescent glass backing toward the top of the arrangement

Rare Antique 1700s French Snuff Box, Vernis Martin Figural & Portrait Miniature Oil Painting, Ivory drafting A stunning and rare oneAbsolutely French, this glorious hand painted in the manner of Vernis Martin (look up the process on the internet to learn more about this favorite decorative style of Marie Antoinette), this superb large snuff or patch box is a remarkable 200 years old and more the experts invariably date these to the Louis XIV period, late 1700s to earliest 1800s. I fully agree with them, and the museum piece you see here might well have spent time at Versailles