A FINE SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY FRENCH ROSEWOOD, SATINWOOD, GILT BRONZE MOUNTED AND PAINTED WRITING BOX BY SUSSE PAPETIER, PARIS of rectangular form, the inset satinwood hinged lid with brass escutcheon and ormolu foliate handle, the sides of the box with miniature painted panels depicting Jardin du Palais royal, Parc de Monteaux, Lacs du bois de Boulogne, Vue Generale du St Cloud, the interior with red leather letter holder with paper label inscribed 'SUSSE Papetier Passage des Panoramas, No. 7 a Paris',  27cm wide Nicolas Susse and his brother Victor Susse, a paper merchant, founded the fine stationers 'Susse Papetier' in 1806, and were based at 7 Passage des Panoramas from 1806. Here, according to Montigny, they sold 'mechanical screens, nice souvenirs, chests, writing desks, secret desks, boxes for business cards'. IN 1827 they opened a second store 31 rue Vivienne on the Place de la Bourse. They were soon considered to be the premier stationers in Paris and won the title of Suppliers of Queen Marie-Amelie, wife of King Louis-Philippe, and Princess Louise, their daughter, in 1830. In 1847, Susse received the authorisation to use the Sauvage reduction process, which allowed the exact reproduction of bronzes, and from this point on specialised in this field which they became famous for in the second half of the 19th century.