Young Woman in Gold with Butterfly, Verre Eglomise Miniature, c. 1830s fidget toy ready to receive the pass

ready to receive the pass and put it up

3 3/8" x 4 1/2"

Largest crystals measure 1 7/8" in diameter

and with a a very snakelike slithering and tapering form to the body

Like three separate choreographed vignettes sharing the same frame: young women in foreground (with great faces

Young Woman in Gold with Butterfly, Verre Eglomise Miniature, c. 1830s fidget toy ready to receive the passThis is a reverse glass painted (verre glomis) miniature engraving in original gold toned (brass I believe) frame, c. 1830s and French. One sees the lids of French patch boxes and bon bon containers executed in this manner, but this appears only to have ever been a portrait, with original papered reverse enclosed by the teeth of the frame. And with the golden butterfly at her shoulder the hinge of the painting, rationalizing the revealing concealing,