Blackened wooden box, pearl and gilt brass, signed Alphonse Giroux Paris, nineteenth
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Wooden blackened fillets golden brass and nacre, signed Alph. Giroux & Cie Paris * of XIXth century.
This box is in good condition.
A report: small slits in the background, lack unfilet brass on the lid, missing an angle on the front and two at the back (see red arrows), see photos.
Alphonse Giroux is a toymaker and a cabinetmaker, born about 1775 and died in 1848. First he turned to a career as an artist under the leadership of Jacques-Louis David, but he abandoned his brushes for commercial activity tables and furniture and objets d'art. From 1799 to 1848 he held his 7 rue du Coq Saint Honoré in Paris. A son, Alphonse-Gustave continued his activity. Another, André Giroux, took the brushes abandoned by his father.