Antique French Mother of Pearl Egg Pocket Watch Stand, Tray, Palais Royal Prussian Barbedienne noted on many of

Barbedienne noted on many of the very finest artist and artisan bronze casts in museum collections

And while it has a restored crack traversing the cover and some restoration along that bottom left edge and side panels

the Pont Alexandre III

This one weighs 35 grams

I'm un-crating the best of best and listing my entire collection in weeks

Antique French Mother of Pearl Egg Pocket Watch Stand, Tray, Palais Royal Prussian Barbedienne noted on many ofI've written so many times about the boutiques flanking the garden promenade at the old Palais Royal, palace of Cardinal Richelieu, you all already know the story. This is a trinket, souvenir, from someone's Grand Tour of Paris, first half of 1800s, and very likely from one of those boutiques. Such fun frivolous creativity has gone into these natural mother of pearl shell objects from elaborate mechanical etui presenting sewing sets and or perfume