Étui; France, second half of the nineteenth century. Enameled and gilded porcelain. It shows wear. Measurements: 15,5 x 6 x 3 cm. Case "Étui" of white porcelain and bronze. Elongated and flat shape with rounded ends. It consists of two parts, body and lid, which closes with pressure and gilded bronze mouthpiece. Magnificently decorated in Rococo style, offers, center of the body with a large oval on each side, hand painted, front river landscape and, rear lady in garden with basket of flowers and putti on the head; rest decoration in relief of rockeries and golden braces, flowers or stars and losanges. Lid same decoration with fluvial landscape. This type of box or étui became fashionable in the French society of the eighteenth century as a sign of luxury and power, its use was to contain things of personal use of the most varied. Paris in the eighteenth century, had an economic explosion with a great artistic and cultural dynamism, became the capital of Western Europe. It is common to remember that, at that time, from St. Petersburg, Stockholm or Berlin to Madrid, the whole of Europe spoke French, a language that prevailed both in diplomacy and, in general, in life in society. However, very few know that this primacy was rooted in the lifestyle that the intellectuals, artists and craftsmen who had studied and lived in Paris displayed in their daily lives with extraordinary dynamism. Many of them were, by the way, of foreign origin.