Box game wood marquetry chips mother of pearl Vervelle Elder Napoleon III nineteenth
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Box or game box in blackened wood and marquetry gilded brass and mother of pearl, signed Vevelle Aîné *, with its mother-of-pearl chips finely chiselled by hand, Napoleon III nineteenth century.
This box is in good condition and is of high quality. It is signed see photos. We have his key, the lock works (but hard to close). It contains: 21 round tokens, 9 small rectangles, 56 rectangles, two decks of cards (52 cards for each).
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Grand cabinet maker of the Second Empire. Vervelle Aîné exercised 157 Rue du Faubourg in Paris from 1825 to 1856. The Vervelle house was founded by his father, Jean-François, in 1804. His specialty was the small furniture and the most diverse boxes and boxes, the tapestries (his first job was upholsterer). In 1840 he counted nearly a hundred workers. He then made fancy furniture, wedding baskets, liquor cabinets, kits and travel kits. The VERVELLE house was then firmly established, it knew how to manufacture high quality objects at reasonable prices.