Kate Flitcroft
Co-Head of Department UK
Lot 6Y
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-SIMON-BENJAMIN DUVIVIER (1730-1819): PLASTER MEDALLION BOX AND WAX MEDALLION OF KING LOUIS XV (2)
26 April 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£600 - £800
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Jennifer Tonkin
Co-Head of Department UK
Charlotte Glyde
Specialist Consultant
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-SIMON-BENJAMIN DUVIVIER (1730-1819): PLASTER MEDALLION BOX AND WAX MEDALLION OF KING LOUIS XV
The tortoiseshell box with lacquer exterior, the lid set with a plaster medallion portraying the profile of the King's sister, accompanied by a green wax medallion of Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France (1715-1774), with a handwritten label verso supporting the provenance and the attribution for the plaster medallion in the lid of the box, wax medallion diameter 6.4cm, box diameter 7.6cm (2)
Footnotes
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.
By repute, this box and wax profile of Louis XV once belonged to Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792)
Marie Thérèse Louise was a member of the Savoy-Carignano cadet branch of the House of Savoy. She was married at the age of 17 to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Prince de Lamballe, the heir to the greatest fortune in France. After her marriage, which lasted a year, she went to the French Royal Court and became the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She was killed in the massacres of September 1792 during the French Revolution.
