A French boulle marquetry and ebonized box late, 19th century, rectangular, the hinged top inlaid with engraved cut brass in scrolling foliate designs on a tortoise-shell ground with a centre engraved C.P., the ebonized sides with brass stringing, the fall-front with a conforming boulle marquetry escutcheon, the base with the labelled 'Peret, rue Montmorency, 19, Paris'. Height 8.5 cm. Width 26.5 cm. Depth 10 cm