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A SEVRES BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR BISCUIT PORCELAIN PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF MARIE CAROLINE, DUCHESSE DE BERRY, (1798-1870)

CIRCA 1820, INDISTINCTLY TITLED BELOW THE BUST

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A SEVRES BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR BISCUIT PORCELAIN PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF MARIE CAROLINE, DUCHESSE DE BERRY, (1798-1870)
CIRCA 1820, INDISTINCTLY TITLED BELOW THE BUST
The pale blue ground applied in white with a shoulder-length portrait of the Duchesse looking to the right, wearing a pearl choker and pendant with feathers in her hair, within an ebonised frame
The plaque: 3½ in. ( cm.) diameter excluding the frame

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Maria Caroline, Duchesse de Berry, (1798-1870) was the daughter of Francesco I of the Two Sicilies. In 1816, she married Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry, (1778-1820) the youngest son of Charles X, King of France, (1757-1836). Following the assassination of her husband in 1820, her son, Henri, comte de Chambord, (1820-1883) continued the direct Bourbon line of Louis XIV and was the Legitimist Pretender to the throne of France.

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