Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Lot 315

JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)

Closed28 November 2012

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JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Charles-Ferdinand of Bourbon (1778-1820), Duc de Berry, in dark green uniform with red collar, silver epaulettes, black stock, wearing the breast-star of the Royal French Order of Saint Esprit and the badges of Saint Louis, the Lily and the Legion of Honour
on ivory
oval, 3½ in. (90 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount with stamped surround, within rectangular wood frame applied with two glazed oval reserves containing locks of hair, gilt-metal surrounds engraved 'Charles Ferdinand 13 Fevrier 1820.' and 'Caroline Ferdinande 14 Fevrier 1820.', gilt-metal plaque engraved 'Donné à Mgr l'Evêque de Chartres, Par S.A.R. Madame la Dsse de Berry', and gilt fleur-de-lys spandrels

Given to the Bishop of Chartres, probably Jean-Baptist-Marie-Anne-Antoine de Latil, Bishop of Chartres 1817-1824, by the Duchesse de Berry.
Dr Ludwig Ritter von Flesch-Festau Collection, Vienna.
Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Litomerice; part I, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 March 1939, lot 56.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March, 1977, lot 171.

Specialist note

Charles-Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duc de Berry was the second son of the Comte d'Artois and his wife, Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy. He emigrated with his parents in 1789 and fought against the Revolutionary troops. In 1801 he settled in England and married Amy Brown with whom he had two daughters. His family did not recognise this union and they forced him to marry Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Sicilies in 1816. The year after the birth of a daughter in 1819, the Duc de Berry was murdered by a saddler named Louis Pierre Louvel who wanted to extinguish the Bourbon line. He did not live to see the birth of his son, the future Duc de Bordeaux who was referred to as 'l'enfant du miracle'.