The circular bonbonnière has reeded silver-gilt mounts and the lid and base are each inset with a miniature of a lady with the appearance of a sibyl, diameter 8cm.
The sibyls were oracles, or prophetesses of Ancient Greece.
Categories: Objects of Vertu |
A Continental tortoiseshell bonbonnière, late 18th Century.
REFERENCE: VER12074
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