French
Sablé beadwork patch box, ca. 1780
glass beads, paper, silk
2 x 2 x 1/4 in.
POA
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Sablé (fine glass beadwork) patch box, probably used to hold beauty patches worn by fashionable ladies in the later 18th century. The lid depicting a lady dressed as a shepherdess...
Sablé (fine glass beadwork) patch box, probably used to hold beauty patches worn by fashionable ladies in the later 18th century. The lid depicting a lady dressed as a shepherdess with lacing bodice and bergère hat with flowers, and the body banded with an inscription which may read as follows: JE SAIS TOUT ET JE NE DIT [sic] RIEN / ET LA TENDRESSE JE DIT [sic] LE BIEN (I know all and I say nothing / and the tenderness, I speak [of it] well). Lined in silk.
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