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Lot Essay
Although the groom wears a scarlet ribbon rather than the blue of the Saint Esprit, it seems likely to be the marriage of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette in 1770.
Details
A princely wedding,
a fan, the silk leaf painted with the couple attended by a guard of honour, and with altars of love decorated with spangles, the ivory sticks carved with portrait busts of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette and dolphins and putti, pierced and gilt, the guardsticks carved with a robed queen and dolphins - 11in.(27cm.), circa 1770 (repairs to verso of leaf
See Illustration
a fan, the silk leaf painted with the couple attended by a guard of honour, and with altars of love decorated with spangles, the ivory sticks carved with portrait busts of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette and dolphins and putti, pierced and gilt, the guardsticks carved with a robed queen and dolphins - 11in.(27cm.), circa 1770 (repairs to verso of leaf
See Illustration
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