"Oriental-style" box with enamel painting
"Oriental-style" box with enamel painting
France, Nancy
The 1890s
Clear colorless glass; enamel painting, gold painting
Rectangular casket of colorless transparent glass, on four gilded feet. The walls of the casket are decorated with polychrome enamel painting. On one of the wide sides, within ornately shaped reserve at the center, two animals are depicted in a heraldic pose; on the other side, the same animals are shown flanking a stylized tree (flower?). The side walls feature a deer (?) and a doe (?). All animal figures are "interwoven" into a floral-geometric ornament that covers the entire surface of the walls.
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