head opening to reveal a silk-lined quill compartment, the bucket-form inkwell with glass liner, bearing cobalt blue enamelled placard with "LA MARCHE" in gilt letters; length: 8 inches "Note:" Alphonse Giroux (1775?-1848) was a renowned and prosperous ebeniste and dealer who maintained a shop at 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honore, producing and selling all sorts of "articles de fantaisie, de necessaries et corbeilles de mariage, des jouets..." etc.. He was an appointed purveyor to the Royal Family, supplying Louis XVIII and Charles X with gifts to be presented to the "enfants de France". ("Un age d'or des arts decoratifs 1814-1848," Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1991, p. 524).