Pineapple cut crystal box or casket, featuring diamond-point (pointe de diamant) geometric cutting and gilt-bronze (ormolu) mounts. The hinged body is enclosed by a pierced, openwork gilded metal waistband, topped with a stylized foliage finial, and supported on a diamond-cut pedestal foot over a stepped, footed gilt-bronze base.
France. 19th century (Napoleon III period).
Height: 31 cm / Base width: 10 cm
Good condition.
In 19th-century France, luxury crystal houses such as Baccarat and Saint-Louis produced elaborate gilt-bronze mounted crystal caskets, perfume holders, and trinket boxes. Styled in egg or pineapple forms with intricate diamond-point cutting, these decorative objects were popular as high-end dressing table ornaments during the Second Empire and Napoleon III eras.
