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Lot 14Ф,Y

LOUIS-MARIE SICARDI (FRENCH, 1746-1825): A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE OF FRANCE

26 April 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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LOUIS-MARIE SICARDI (FRENCH, 1746-1825): A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE OF FRANCE

Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), Queen of France (1774-1792), wearing blue dress with white lace trim and ribbon, her powdered wig finished with blue ribbon, watercolour on ivory, signed Sicardi, gilt-mounted onto an orange lacquer box with tortoiseshell interior, labelled Baron M. Rothschild and numbered 177, ivory dimensions 4.6cm x 5.5cm, box diameter 8.2cm

Footnotes

Please note, the United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA. The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10). Ref. DTM31DHG.

Provenance:
Baron Meyer de Rothschild (1818–1874)
D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd, 26 Conduit Street, London

A Private Collection of Jewels and Portrait Miniatures of Bourbon Interest

Lots 1 - 16 form part of a private collection of jewels, portrait miniatures and objects de vertu, predominantly relating to the Bourbon dynasty and dating from the 17th century onwards. Bourbon monarchs united France and part of the kingdom of Navarre in 1589, ruling both until the French Revolution of 1792. Restored briefly in 1814 and finally in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the senior line of the Bourbons was overthrown again in the July Revolution of 1830. A cadet Bourbon branch, the House of Orléans, then ruled for 18 years (1830–1848), until it too was deposed.

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