Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
FRANÇOIS MEURET (FRENCH, 1800-1887)
Lot 308

FRANÇOIS MEURET (FRENCH, 1800-1887)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,750

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FRANÇOIS MEURET (FRENCH, 1800-1887)
Louis Philippe I (1773-1850), King of the French 1830-1848, in black coat with gold embroidered oak leaf collar and gold epaulettes, wearing the red moiré sash, badge and breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Royal Belgian Order of Leopold
on ivory
oval, 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.) high, rectangular ormolu frame with stamped foliate surround and applied at the corners with fleur-de-lys spandrels

Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part III, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 87.

Specialist note

Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, son of Philippe-Egalité who was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror, and his wife Louise-Marie de Bourbon-Penthièvre, married Princess Marie-Amélie of Bourbon-Naples in 1809. He became King of the French in 1830 after the abdication of King Charles X and reigned until the Revolution of 1848. He died at Claremont, formerly the home of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold.