Jewelry box Louis XVI style; Vienna, third quarter of the nineteenth century.

Jewelry box Louis XVI style; Vienna, third quarter of the nineteenth century.
Vienna porcelain and mercury gilded bronze.
Marks on the base.
Measurements: 12,5 x 19 x 13 cm.
Jewelry box made of porcelain with bronze appliques. In the upper area, the lid, you can see a border inside which you can see a miniature portrait of Louis XVI, following the model of the painter Joseph-Siffred Duplessis. The combination of these apparently disparate elements is, however, effective at the expressive level, and manages to maintain the classical rigor while leaving room for the ornamental fantasy so much to the taste of the bourgeois clientele of the second half of the nineteenth century. The French Louis XVI style is included within Neoclassicism. The decorative elements, as already indicated, are classicist in inspiration, but the curves and sinuosities of the rococo of Louis XV have not disappeared, although these are secondary.
This type of pieces reached great popularity during the nineteenth century, becoming an object of luxury and social significance, so that its quality and good taste distinguished the taste of its owner.