AN ORIENTALIST AGATE CAMEO BROOCH WITH SULTANA
Paris, France, second half 19th century

Of oval shape, the agate cameo decorated with a frontal bust portrait of a Turkish lady holding a book and wearing a puffy voluminous robe and turban, set within a gilt frame with fleshy palmette leaves, presented in a black leather case marked Charles Martial Bernard Joaillier de la Maison du Roi, Rue de la Paix no. 1, Paris, the brooch 7cm x 5.2cm.