Mahogany and ormolu display case with Japanese lacquer panels, with two leaves and a drawer at the bottom and a glass door at the top, decorated with a frieze of canals and tigettes, a frieze of interlaces and rosettes and a frieze of darts and oves, the uprights with detached columns resting on spinning top legs. Stencilled in Beurdeley ink in Paris Napoleon III period H 182×W 102×D 52cm