a Vienna porcelain part coffee service 1792-1796

each piece painted with a puce landscape within a green frame with ribboned laurel festoons, the cups with entwined leaf moulded handles, spouts, rims and handles picked out in gilding, comprising: four cups and three saucers, a coffee pot and cover, a hot milk jug and cover, underglaze blue shield mark and date code
together with four Vienna porcelain trembleuse cups and saucers and a sugar bowl with a matching Chinese porcelain cover, 19th century, painted with sprays of flowers and gilt formal border, underglaze blue shield mark ; a Cozzi porcelain saucer ; a Elbogen porcelain cup, saucer and plate, 1808-1835, impressed elbow mark (some chips, wears and losses)

coffee service: minor chips to neck of coffee pot, general minute wears to gilding commensurate with age. Trembleuses: some minor chips to foot rims, one with a minor crack to neck. Cup, saucer and plate: some wear to gilding, a minor chip to rim of saucer. Chinese porcelain cover: some losses to finial.
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The Elbogen cup, saucer and plate bear Italian notes asserting that they were daily used by the Duchesse de Berry, and especially just before her death "with which she had her last coffee half an hour before her death at 9 a.m". The Duchesse de Berry died on 16th April 1870 in the castle of Brunsee, Austria.

The duchesse de Berry spent 35 years in exile after plotting against Louis-Philippe, King of France in 1832, in order to give the throne to her son Henri. In 1834, her uncle the Emperor Francis officially authorised her to stay in Austria. Hosted by the count Jerome Herberstein in Graz in 1834, she then acquired the property of Brunsee in 1837 and later on the Venetian palazzo Ca' Vendramin Calergi. 
She built one of the largest private art collections of the time, complementing the collection she had built as Duchesse de Berry with the one inherited from her second husband Ettore Lucchesi-Palli. She also built many schools and was very popular with her French, Austrian and Italian tenants.
However, excluded from the Bourbon family, she would never see her first two children Louise and Henri d'Artois again, and the last years of her life were the most terrible. In 1864, she lost within two months first her eldest daughter Louise and then her husband. The 1832 failed plot left her with many debts so that she had to see her collections sold at auction (Hotel Drouot, Paris, April -May 1865). She then lost her sight and died on 16 April 1870 at Brunsee. She was buried with her husband in a small private chapel in Mureck, Styria.