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Description: | The portrait has been transfer printed and overpainted in enamel colours. The King wears a red coat with a yellow star on the breast and a yellow wig. The body of the box is in pale blue enamel. The box has a metal mounts and there is a glass mirror inside the lid. As highly decorative objects d'art, enamel patch boxes were used by the aristocracy of 18th century England to contain 'beauty spots' made of black paper or taffeta which would be placed on the face to disguise ugly blemishes and scars.
Oval patch box with portrait of King Louis XVI with inscription Louis XVI. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | King Louis XVI Manufacturing industry Men Decorative arts Metalworking industries Kings Fashion Health Enamels Royalty Georgian period | Temporal: | 1770
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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