Lot n° 157
Estimation :
12000 - 15000
EUR
* GILDED RED MOROCCO FLAT-TOP TRAVEL CASE, WITH THE COAT OF - Lot 157
* GILDED RED MOROCCO FLAT-TOP TRAVEL CASE, WITH THE COAT OF ARMS OF MADAME ADELAIDE (1732-1800), DAUGHTER OF LOUIS XV.
Louis XV period.
Oak covered with calfskin.
H. 22 cm W. 57 cm D. 41 cm
Key included.
This travel box with its slightly domed lid features hinges on the corners and edges. It has side handles. The lid is decorated with "lace". In the center is a cartouche bearing Madame Adélaïde's coat of arms, beneath a fleur-de-lys wreath framed by knotted palms.
The interior is lined with blue moiré paper.
The Menus-Plaisirs archives show that almost every year, Mesdames, daughters of Louis XV, ordered one or even several morocco chests. When they were found to be damaged, they were passed on to the
members of their retinue.
Louis XV's daughters also had large, armorial trunks delivered to hold their belongings when traveling. Each had its own color: red for Madame Adélaïde, yellow for Madame Sophie, blue for Madame Louise and green for Madame Victoire.
In 1752, Simonneau delivered five armorial red morocco-covered chests to Madame Adélaïde, and Sirois took over until 1768.
Compartments and interior bags were used to store toilet baskets, hats, baskets, snuffboxes,
or even gold and silver coins.
Madame Adélaïde was housed on the first floor of the main building of the Château de Versailles until the French Revolution. She
lived at the Château de Bellevue until 1791, when she emigrated to Trieste in Italy, where she died on February 27, 1800.
References
- Small Louis XV period red morocco trunk with Mesdames coat of arms, size 22 x 57 cm (identical to ours) by Pierre Vente (signed under the coat of arms cartouche on the lid).
Sotheby's Parke Bernet sale, London, Rosebery Mentmore, May 18, 1987, vol.1 furniture lot n° 109
- Then Sotheby's sale, Paris, April 17, 2019, Sylvain Lévy-Alban : Rive Droite / Rive Gauche, lot n° 104.
- Hôtel des Ventes de Monaco, April 30, 2016, coffret de Madame Adélaïde, fille de Louis XV 21.5 x 57 x 41 cm (Identical dimensions).
- An almost identical casket, signed Pierre, sold at Christie's, La Vie de Château, Collection Jean-Louis Remilleux, Paris, September 28-29, 2015, lot no. 400. Sold for €35,000.
Bibliography:
- See the exhibition book "Louis XIV, un moment de perfection de l'art français", fig. 551, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Imprimerie nationale, 1974.
- Pierre Verlet, "Recherches sur quelques coffres en usage à la cour de France à propos de deux coffres du Musée de Lisbonne", in João Couto, in memoriam, Lisbon, 1971, p. 241.
A LOUIS XV GILT-TOOLED RED MOROCCO LEATHER
TRUNK, WITH THE ARMS OF MADAME ADELAIDE
(1732-1800), DAUGHTER OF LOUIS XV, ON THE LID
Oakwood covered in calf leather.
H. 8,6 in. L. 22,4 in. D. 16,1 in.
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