JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France 1774-1792, in gold-embroidered brown velvet coat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Saint-Esprit, the badge of the French Royal Military Order of St Louis, and the red ribbon of another order, probably the Golden Fleece, a purple cloak over his right shoulder, powdered wig en queue
Signed and dated ‘Augustin / decbre 1816.’ and inscribed by the artist on the backing card 'Louis XVI. / par Augustin / donné à M. de Seze par / en decembre 1816 / Par Louis XIII' [sic]
On ivory
59 mm. diam., enamelled gold réverbère mount, set into the cover of a circular gold-lined tortoiseshell bonbonnière signed ‘Ouizille et Vachette, Bijoutiers à Paris 20 K. 5.’ with maker’s mark of Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette (1753-1839), struck with the 2nd standard mark and excise mark for gold, Paris 1798-1809 and the Post-Revolutionary Parisian unofficial standard mark for 20.5 carat gold
JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France 1774-1792, in gold-embroidered brown velvet coat, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Royal French Order of the Saint-Esprit, the badge of the French Royal Military Order of St Louis, and the red ribbon of another order, probably the Golden Fleece, a purple cloak over his right shoulder, powdered wig en queue
Signed and dated ‘Augustin / decbre 1816.’ and inscribed by the artist on the backing card 'Louis XVI. / par Augustin / donné à M. de Seze par / en decembre 1816 / Par Louis XIII' [sic]
On ivory
59 mm. diam., enamelled gold réverbère mount, set into the cover of a circular gold-lined tortoiseshell bonbonnière signed ‘Ouizille et Vachette, Bijoutiers à Paris 20 K. 5.’ with maker’s mark of Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette (1753-1839), struck with the 2nd standard mark and excise mark for gold, Paris 1798-1809 and the Post-Revolutionary Parisian unofficial standard mark for 20.5 carat gold
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