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Julius Bryant, V&amp;A Publishing, 2011, publication to accompany an exhibition at the Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (18 November 2011-15 April 2012), no. 112\n'Bought by the Museum of Ornamental Art for £12 from Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855, this box is both oriental and medieval in inspiration.  On the cover stand three medieval pages: one holds a crown, the second a hawk, and the third is blowing a horn.  On a minute scale they parallel the figures designed and modelled by Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume for the corners of the caskets in Froment-Meurice's masterpiece at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the toilet service of the Duchess of Parma' (Richard Edgcumbe)"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"For the context: Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, 'Geoffroy-Dechaume et l'orfevrerie', in <i>De plâtre et d'or: Geoffroy-Dechaume sculpteur romantique de Viollet-le-Duc</i>, exhibition catalogue, Musée d'art et d'histoire Louis Senlecq (L'Isle Adam, 1998), pp. 73-92)."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Catherine Arminjon, James Beaupuis, Michèle Bilimoff.  Dictionnaire des poinçons de fabricants...de Paris et de la Seine, 1798-1838. 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