Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross though there is a little

though there is a little darkening to the steel blades (typical of age)

another pair and a larger set of four and they all look lovely displayed together

I can't wait to use it

it's actually a single inkwell with the other left side a removable sander as was more often found in the pieces dating to the 18th to early 19th century pieces

we do not know who this lovely woman is

Antique French Miniature Portrait in Fine Dore Bronze Frame - Mme de Montesson cross though there is a littleMme. de Montesson, the lovely young woman subject of our early to mid 1800s hand painted miniature portrait offered here, was the mistress of Duc d'Orleans, Louis Philippe d'Orleans. The painting is styled after, I believe, a c. 1760 painting of her by Guillaume VOIRIOT, which was called "Femme a' sa Toilette". I've included a couple of views of Mme de Montesson, the combination of which may have been the source. She wears the same outfit and holds a