Antique French Palais Royal Trinket Inkwell is a Carriage Pulled by 2 Goats, Ormolu Alabaster antique étui Just sweet for display

Just sweet for display

such a tragedy that one child's portrait has a little loss to it - someone must have cleaned it at some point with water and it leaked into the portrait

which would identify it as French

an ID'd depiction of Aimee de Coigny

a lovely box in a unique hexagonal shapewith thick beveled glass sides and eglomise (reverse painted) glass scene of Le Palais de Justice in Beauvais on top

Antique French Palais Royal Trinket Inkwell is a Carriage Pulled by 2 Goats, Ormolu Alabaster antique étui Just sweet for displayProbably a Napoleon III era (Victorian) souvenir trinket initially offered from a boutique in the flank of the garden promenade at the famed Palais Royal, Paris. I love these! The variations seem endless, but double goats or double horse carriages, opaline eggs are probably my favorites. The Palais Royal, a long historied Palace of Cardinal Richelieu, and for centuries a center of upscale commerce, theater, dining, gathering place. Full measurements