Napoleon III Boulle Style Double Perfume Casket with Enamel Bottles French, Paris, circa 1860–1875 echoes church tabernacles on a

echoes church tabernacles on a miniature scale

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and this set clearly belonged to such a tradition

Measures approximately 19 inches in height

This style echoes traditional European still life painting but with a more relaxed mid century hand

Napoleon III Boulle Style Double Perfume Casket with Enamel Bottles French, Paris, circa 1860–1875 echoes church tabernacles on aNapoleon III Boulle Style Double Perfume Casket with Enamel Bottles French, Paris, circa 18601875 An exceptional Napoleon III period luxury perfume casket, richly decorated in the celebrated Boulle style with intricate gilt brass arabesque inlay set against deep red tortoiseshell effect panels. This type of elaborate marquetry, inspired by the work of Andr Charles Boulle at the court of Louis XIV, saw a dramatic revival in France during the mid