Antique French Papier Mache 20" x 15.75" Serving Tray, HP, Golden Pheasant, Napo Montereau but there is a simplicity

but there is a simplicity and almost austerity that inhabits the image

The gold has been tested at a very high 22k

Ever more difficult to find for you

quite similar to this one and have shown at least one in that l group image so you can see how mine turned out

Antique French Papier Mache 20" x 15.75" Serving Tray, HP, Golden Pheasant, Napo Montereau but there is a simplicityHand painted enamel on this superb mid 1800s French serving tray. Just in from France, this extra large service tray from the c. 1850 70 Napoleon III era, and the very popular (then) Japonaise and Chinoiserie (Orientalism) decorative style made popular by the Empress Eugeniea, wife of Louis Napoloen, last Emperor of France. A Victorian era style that caught on broadly throughout Europe and to America, the Victorian era papier mache objects out of