Elegant French Gentleman Portrait Miniature, Louis-Philippe Era, Napoleon Hair and Gold Stick Pin French Revolution snuff An English made cigar case

An English made cigar case

a' la original

which would have been a small glass or ceramic insert

Elegantly dressed young ladies

I will note that the cuts for chair arms at sides are straight cuts with the panel turned back

Elegant French Gentleman Portrait Miniature, Louis-Philippe Era, Napoleon Hair and Gold Stick Pin French Revolution snuff An English made cigar caseInteresting handsome gentleman with a combination of a judgmental nose and labials and those sidelined eyes and worried eyebrows, it makes me wonder what he was like in person. The forward swept curls after the Napoleon haircuts, a thick cravat of the post Revolution which might tell us he is a son or grandson of a Nobel who was lost to the guillotine. These thick wraps symbolized a reattachment bandage and were worn as protest. His gold and gem set