Fine Antique French 3" Table Snuff Box or Bonbon, Portrait Miniature with Parrot Choisy le Roi You can see the small

You can see the small dots which are holes

Works smoothly

It's English in origin

sometimes a screened ink-line like drawing that is then hand colored

This type of old French metal is slightly bendable

Fine Antique French 3" Table Snuff Box or Bonbon, Portrait Miniature with Parrot Choisy le Roi You can see the smallI feel certain this is a portrait after one I've seen of either Mme Pompadour or of Miss Elizabeth, one of the lovely ladies of 1700s France, but I can't immediately access it in my head or the internet, either one. Still, that aside, it is a lovely hand painted miniature of a beauty, holding what we can assume is either a lovebird, or a dove. Beautifully crafted, signed by artist to the right at a 3 o'clock position (we've shown it in detail for your