Vintage French Grand Tour Style Casket, Beveled Glass & Eglomise "Lourdes Basilica" Souvenir Scene Glass beadwork bag Fine caramel color tortoise shell

Fine caramel color tortoise shell with inlays

and perhaps also the artist

deep hand painted floral enamel decoration

it's waist-length

the only way to preserve a likeness was to sit for an artist's original portrait

Vintage French Grand Tour Style Casket, Beveled Glass & Eglomise "Lourdes Basilica" Souvenir Scene Glass beadwork bag Fine caramel color tortoise shellVintage French Belle Epoque era Grand Tour style souvenir jewel casket, a lovely box with eglomise (reverse painted) glass scene of the Lourdes Basilica or Cathedral! We recently acquired several of these wonderful little French souvenir caskets and will be adding them in the coming weeks. This one with very thick beveled glass panels, four panels around the sides and the larger top with the scene a hand tinted accented photo mounted on the back side.