Antique 5.5" Long French Kiln-fired Enamel Jewelry Box, Original Silk Lining, Napoleon III Era Montesson Caskets like this normally are

Caskets like this normally are missing big chunks of tail

As evidenced by the photos

perhaps it has been replaced or restored there

very early Limoges or other noted house as maker

everything visible in the images

Antique 5.5" Long French Kiln-fired Enamel Jewelry Box, Original Silk Lining, Napoleon III Era Montesson Caskets like this normally areI sold an 8" long box (shown in the final image) this week, and in that process I realized I have 7 8 of them in my display case, not listed at all. No wonder they haven't sold, huh. But I'm working them up, and this is the longest of the bunch at 5. 5". These are truly works of art! Kiln fired enamel, painstakingly worked as muddy mauves to blues as glaze slip, impossible to know what color they will be when the kiln's heat melts the powders into a