Circular ivory box decorated with a miniature depicting the flight of a hot air balloon - End of the eighteenth century - SOLD

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  Circular ivory box decorated with a miniature depicting the flight of a hot air balloon - End of the eighteenth century - SOLD

  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.

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