Featured REMEMBER MANY STONED ROUND SMALL BONBONNIERE???

If you don't, I posted it before when it was going up for auction, and it SOLD..... hold your breath.......$455,560.00!!!!! Here's the image and story:

 

WOWZA!!!!!!!

I don't remember seeing this piece. Is it yours? Could you post a link to the original thread?

 

That's below the high auction estimate.

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/h...verybody-who-collects-them.28115/#post-373540

Johann-Christian Neuber, the maker of this box, was court jeweler to Augustus III, but none of his boxes were in the Dresden Green Vaults in his day. They were considered too prosaic. There are boxes by him in the collection now.

 

Thanks for finding that previous link @moreotherstuff !! There it is..... @bercrystal!! And NO, hahaha, it was NOT mine....it was in the Maine Antique Digest!!

 

Guerlain packed their powder "les météorites" in a box inspired by a similar
Much more affordable for a great effect

 

I remember it now. Hopefully one of us stumbles upon one of these in the bottom of a box lot.

 

....and doesn't scrap it out for the gold!