RARE c.180-1810 French Empire Portrait Miniature, a Beauty in Tiara, fine Shagreen Case, Lamp base so perhaps best framed and

so perhaps best framed and hang or displayed as decorative accent in your home

The back however :)

and we've left the finish just as they arrived after their trip here from France

we sell to the lot props of major studios)

RARE c.180-1810 French Empire Portrait Miniature, a Beauty in Tiara, fine Shagreen Case, Lamp base so perhaps best framed andA rare piece, this one in the original c. 1800 portrait etui, case, in superb shagreen (belly leather from the stingray, popular c. 1750 1820), A young beauty, so magnificently done, we can enlarge her face and see her as if she were a large wall portrait, yet that face is only about 3 4" in height. She has soulful eyes, the typical hair style of the Napoleonic French Empire, and a tiara and earrings. She wears an Empire gown and we're able to date