GIUSEPPE TRESCA (ITALIAN, FL. C. 1770 - 1816)
Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France 1774-1793, in gold-embroidered blue coat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal French order of the Saint Esprit and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, ermine-bordered blue cloak embroidered with gold fleur-de-lys, seated in an interior
signed 'Tresca f.' (mid-right)
on ivory
2¾ in. (71 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount set on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined ivory bonbonnière
GIUSEPPE TRESCA (ITALIAN, FL. C. 1770 - 1816)
Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France 1774-1793, in gold-embroidered blue coat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal French order of the Saint Esprit and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, ermine-bordered blue cloak embroidered with gold fleur-de-lys, seated in an interior
signed 'Tresca f.' (mid-right)
on ivory
2¾ in. (71 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount set on the cover of a tortoiseshell-lined ivory bonbonnière
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