Vintage Small Burl Wood Box Vintage

Vintage Small Burl Wood Box VintageSmall Burl Wood Box Mid 20th C Handmade Burl Wood Trinket Box 1960s 80s Italy Really is burl probably Thuya, maple, or poplar burl (swirling eye pattern)

Bindings like this were intended for upper-class libraries

Works such as Instructions sur le Rituel were created for practical clerical use

candelabra

9–11 inches wide

giltwood and composition frame

appearing to read “Leib or Lieh…” (or similar)

The central urn motif references classical antiquity and was widely used in French decorative arts during the reigns of Louis XVI and later revival movements

likely in the late 19th or early 20th century

Mechanism for folding and support appears intact and functional

suggesting it began life as a true miniature rather than a printed transfer

meaning the plaque reproduces a known academic or neoclassical composition rather than being an original painting by the artist

presenting rulers such as Julius Caesar and Augustus in profile format surrounded by Latin inscriptions