Antique French Chocolatier's or Confectioner's Presentation Box, Casket, Souvenir of Chocolate sewing Blade is cutaway

Blade is cutaway

The painting is kept all this time beneath original cover glass

A lovely 2-piece set from my own collections

if framed would be fabulous above your bed

which has its black back-painted (eglomise) glazing still with it

Antique French Chocolatier's or Confectioner's Presentation Box, Casket, Souvenir of Chocolate sewing Blade is cutawayThese are rather rare, really. In 3 decades of searching for them, we've had perhaps 20 and sold a couple to Boissier, probably the most renowned of the 19th century Paris chocolatiers, and others to another confectioner's museum in France. They are the special presentation boxes those businesses had made to fill with their pricey and delicious confections, bonbons, and were meant to be kept as a souvenir long after the chocolate confections were