Grand Tour French Leather Lidded Box with Key

A French leather box with original key, from the twentieth-century version of the Grand Tour. The lid features a high-relief repoussé bronze medallion depicting a Fête Champêtre — a classic 17th-century European pastoral or "garden party" scene, a highly favored motif for late-19th and early-20th-century luxury vanity items.

Stamped Made in France, which places it between 1910 and 1930.

The Grand Tour was a traditional rite of passage for wealthy, upper-class European young men (predominantly British) from the late 17th through the mid-19th centuries. It served as an educational coming-of-age journey to absorb classical art, history, and languages.