A PARIS (LEFEBVRE) PORCELAIN PLAQUE AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)

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A PARIS (LEFEBVRE) PORCELAIN PLAQUE AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUES AUGUSTIN (FRENCH, 1759-1832)
Louis Philippe I (1773-1850), King of the French 1830-1848, in blue uniform with gold-embroidered oak leaf collar and facings, gold epaulettes and gold sash, wearing the badges of the Royal French Orders of the Saint Louis, the Lily and the Legion of Honour, and the three silver breast-stars of the Royal French Order of the Saint Esprit and the Royal Sicilian Orders of St Januarius and the St Ferdinand; gold border creating feigned oval composition with fleur-de-lys motifs in the corners
Signed with monogram 'AG' (lower right) and dated and inscribed on the reverse 'Manufacture de Porcelaines / de / Lefebvre / Rue amelot no 64 / à Paris' and, in another hand, 'Duke of Orleans 1817'
Porcelain

Rectangular, 167 x 133 mm., giltwood frame

Provenance

Bonhams, London, 16 November 2005, lot 170.

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Lot Essay

The present miniature appears to derive from an ivory miniature by Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Augustin, signed and dated June 1814, sold Christie's, London, 15 October 1996, lot 163. Another version, dated 1815, exists as well as a signed copy by Jean-François Hollier, a portrait painter at the Sèvres manufacture. They are described and illustrated in colour in N. Garnier-Pelle, Les Miniatures du musée Condé à Chantilly. Portraits des maisons royales et impériales de France et d'Europe, Paris, 2007, p. 126.
For a biographical note on the sitter, see the previous lot.

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