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Circular ivory box, interior lined with tortoiseshell, the lid decorated with a miniature representing the flight of a hot air balloon above the Tuileries Garden, in a gold entourage carved with a frieze of flowers. Work from the end of the eighteenth century. The first balloon flight took place in the Tuileries Garden on December 1, 1783.
Circular ivory box, interior lined with tortoiseshell, the lid decorated with a miniature representing the flight of a hot air
balloon above the Tuileries Garden, in a gold entourage carved with a frieze of flowers.
Work from the end of the eighteenth century.
Diam: 4,7cm - High: 2cm.
Note two visible slots at the edge of the cover and interior in damaged tortoiseshell (see photos)
The first balloon flight took place in the Tuileries Garden on December 1, 1783.