Superb stingray toilet essential.
It includes a handbag, encrypted in golden letters, and four brushes.
French work, around 1930.
Exceptional condition.
The leather is a fish leather, mainly from the ray or the shark, which has been used for a long time in sheathing.
It is in the Far East that we find the first objects sheathed with fish skins, as early as the eighth century in Japan.
In Europe, It appears in the seventeenth century to cover the handles of daggers and swords.
The origin of the word "stingray" dates back, in fact, to the eighteenth century.
This is the name of the first craftsman who, in the West, knew how to work the foxskin and stingray leather. Jean Claude Galluchat (with two "l") was a master gainier of King Louis XV... or rather exactly from the Marquise de Pompadour, by dressing, for her, with this fish skin, the rarest objects such as chests, trunks, etc.
The stingray, long forgotten, returned to fashion in the 30s, thanks to Paul Iribe, André Groult, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann