Art Deco 1930s Celluloid Chocolate Box La Marquise de Sévigné Paris Fan Shaped 1930s aynsley china The presence of the Ryrie

The presence of the Ryrie Sterling mark places the cutting in Toronto

Waist: 37” around

has some spread

Waist:   24”-25”

Shoulders:  15 1/2” across from seam to seam

Art Deco 1930s Celluloid Chocolate Box La Marquise de Sévigné Paris Fan Shaped 1930s aynsley china The presence of the RyrieThis is an art deco 1930s celluloid chocolate box made for La Marquise de Svign, the historic Paris chocolatier founded in 1898. The box is made of early plasticlikely celluloid or cellulose acetate, both common in French luxury packaging during the 1920s1930sand features a cream coloured exterior decorated with raised gilt scrollwork and radiating orange fan segments. The box was found with an original 1939 La Marquise de Svign almanac, printed on