Antique 5.5" Long French Kiln-fired Enamel Jewelry Box, Original Silk Lining, Napoleon III Era Montesson and remains as you see

and remains as you see it

knowing you might have that in mind for this elegant old treasure

The silversmith marks are for Etienne-Auguste Courtois

very early Limoges or other noted house as maker

Antique 5.5" Long French Kiln-fired Enamel Jewelry Box, Original Silk Lining, Napoleon III Era Montesson and remains as you seeI sold an 8" long box (shown in the final image) this week, and in that process I realized I have 7 8 of them in my display case, not listed at all. No wonder they haven't sold, huh. But I'm working them up, and this is the longest of the bunch at 5. 5". These are truly works of art! Kiln fired enamel, painstakingly worked as muddy mauves to blues as glaze slip, impossible to know what color they will be when the kiln's heat melts the powders into a