Box ca. 1860 Alphonse Giroux & Cie., Paris Displaying star-shaped parquetry and gilt-bronze mounts, this elegant coffer harks back to eighteenth-century traditions. The firm established by Alphonse Giroux (1775/76–1848)—a tabletier, or dealer in luxury goods—was known for its high-quality objects such as glove boxes, caskets for weddings and baptisms, gifts for the New Year, and small pieces of furniture in a variety of styles. In the tradition of eighteenth-century marchands merciers, Giroux and his sons probably did not make any of the offered wares themselves but commissioned them from a va
Box ca. 1860 Alphonse Giroux & Cie., Paris Displaying star-shaped parquetry and gilt-bronze mounts, this elegant coffer harks back to eighteenth-century traditions. The firm established by Alphonse Giroux (1775/76–1848)—a tabletier, or dealer in luxury goods—was known for its high-quality objects such as glove boxes, caskets for weddings and baptisms, gifts for the New Year, and small pieces of furniture in a variety of styles. In the tradition of eighteenth-century marchands merciers, Giroux and his sons probably did not make any of the offered wares themselves but commissioned them from a variety of Box. French. ca. 1860. Wood veneered with parquetry of tulipwood and kingwood, gilt bronze, modern silk lining trimmed with metal thread. Woodwork-Furniture
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