A commemorative boîte à miniatures et à secret, with four-colour gold mounts, French eagle's head control marks, circa 1889

oval, probably made to commemorate the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man, the lid inset with an oval miniature of Danton, lifting by means of a concealed mechanism to reveal a bawdy scene, the sides and base with further oval portraits including the marquis de Lafayette, Robespierre and Madame Roland, on a pale azure ground flanked by revolutionary symbols, the mounts chased with laurel swags and beads