A CHARLES X 'PALAIS-ROYAL' MOTHER-OF-PEARL, ORMOLU AND PASTE INSET NECESSAIRE DE TOILETTE

This beautifully crafted and precious necessaire is a typical product of the Parisian manufactures sold in the fashionable shops of the Palais Royal, just above the Louvre, during the first half of the nineteenth century. Such attractive mother-of-pearl and ormolu objects were the most popular and sought-after during the reign of Charles X. A wide array of everyday objects were fashioned out of mother-of-pearl such as sewing kits, music boxes, inkwells, and hand mirrors.