Alphonse-Gustave GIROUX ( 1775 - 1848)

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Alphonse-Gustave GIROUX ( 1775 - 1848)
Coffret aux Rois. Neo-Gothic box in steel, ivory and gilded and silvered bronze. The bottom decorated with floral motifs engraved on a gilded and partially silvered background, the architectural elements in steel, at each corner an ivory statuette depicting two kings and two queens under canopies, the sides adorned with tri-lobed arcatures, the clasp adorned with a mouse, with its key. The interior is lined in red velvet, the back opens by a secret mechanism controlled by a finial on the front. Signed Alpe Giroux and Compie in Paris. The lid is decorated with an enamelled shield under a royal crown with the arms of the Savoy and Saxony alliance. H.: 16.5 cm, L.: 23.5 cm. Ferdinand of Savoy, Duke of Genoa (1822 - 1855) married in 1850 Elisabeth of Saxony (1830 - 1912).
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