Antique French Empire Portrait Miniature, Woman, Table Snuff Box, Hair Art bottles Sharing a goblet of wine

Sharing a goblet of wine

English traditional charming pottery so popular for your English Manor house decor

The work is c

The cameos here

coins and such would be deposited for the night

Antique French Empire Portrait Miniature, Woman, Table Snuff Box, Hair Art bottles Sharing a goblet of wineFrench Empire era portrait miniature, c. 1800 1815, set into the top of a generous 3. 25" diameter table snuff box of finest quality, and the underside preserves a beautiful plaiting of her hair. A sentimental memento perhaps for her husband, as was customary in its time. The painting is wonderful! She's a handsome young woman in fine French Empire fashion, a low bodice and high "Empire" waist gown which is sophisticated in its simplicity. Fine old