A 19th century French onyx, gilt bronze mounted and champlevé decorated ardinière in the manner of Eugène Cornu The removable rectangular metal liner and tableted front centred by a shaped champlevé enamel panel with champlevé bosses to either side, the reverse similarly decorated, the sides with gilt bronze handles, mounted on circular alabaster bosses, on gilt bronze lion's paw feet, 43 cm. wide x 25 cm. deep x 15 cm. high.