Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
SWEDISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1815
Lot 404

SWEDISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1815

Closed23 May 2014

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GBP 437

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SWEDISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1815
Charles XIII (1748-1818), King of Sweden 1809-1818, in black coat and black stock, wearing the blue sash and breast Star of the Royal Swedish Order of the Sword, and the breast Stars of the Royal Polish Order of the Polar Star and the Royal Polish Order of Vasa
on ivory
oval, 1½ in. (36 mm.) high, in gilt-metal frame surmounted by a crown, the reverse engraved, 'King of Sweden'

Almost certainly given by Charles XIII, King of Sweden to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769 –1822), mounted to the cover of a gold snuff box, following the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and by descent.