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A jewelled four-colour gold and enamel Royal portrait presentation snuff box, Charles Colins & Söhne, Hanau, circa 1822

Lot Closed

May 26, 12:15 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A jewelled four-colour gold and enamel Royal portrait presentation snuff box, Charles Colins & Söhne

Hanau, circa 1822


rectangular with rounded corners, the lid inset with an oval enamel plaque representing Louis XVIII, King of France, wearing a dark blue coat with epaulettes, with the sash and star of the Order of the Saint Esprit and the badge of the Légion d'Honneur, in a chased double frame, on a sablé ground richly chased with floral and scrolling foliage around three collet-set diamonds to each side, the waisted sides similarly decorated, the underside centred with an elaborately chased spray of varicolour gold flowers witin an oval wreath within scroll-decorated spandrels and a zig-zag border, maker’s mark, Hanau CK mark

9.4cm, 3 3/4 in. wide

Louis XVIII (1755 - 1824), was King of France from 3 May 1814 to 20 March 1815, and then again from 8 July 1815 to 16 September 1824, interrupted by the Hundred Days during Napoleon’s return from Elba after eleven months of exile. Known as Louis Stanislas Xavier or under his official pre-royal title, the Count of Provence, the brother of Louis XVI (1754-1793) proclaimed himself King of France after the last Dauphin was guillotined and his legitimate successor Louis XVII had died in prison in 1795. Louis XVIII was the last French monarch to die while still reigning, because the brother of the childless Louis, Charles X (1824–1830), to whom the crown passed upon the former’s death, abdicated.