Lot 464
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A pair of Meissen busts of Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon and Princess Marie Zepherine de Bourbon
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A pair of Meissen busts of Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon and Princess Marie Zepherine de Bourbon

CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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A pair of Meissen busts of Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon and Princess Marie Zepherine de Bourbon
Circa 1753, blue crossed swords marks
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, he slightly to the left, in a bonnet with indianische Blumen divided by radiating gilt bands and applied with feathers and flowers at one side, a purple jacket with indianische Blumen and a pale-yellow sash over his left shoulder, she slightly to the right, wearing a white headscarf applied with a ribbon-tied bouquet of flowers, a pink-lined blue scarf about her shoulders, a pale-yellow bodice with indianische Blumen and with gilt foliage at the front, each on scroll-moulded quatrefoil bases (he with two D-shaped sections broken from base and restored, she with restored chipping to edge of base, both with minute chipping to flowers, leaves and small flowers possibly replacements, two large flowers restuck)
He 63/8 in. (16.2 cm.) and she 6 in. (15.3 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon (1751-1761) and Princess Marie Zepherine de Bourbon (1750-1755) were the children of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729-1765) and Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731-1767). Both children died young and the parents never recovered from their loss; the young prince, in particular, was idolised by both his parents and grandparents. Their maternal grandfather, Augustus III, stipulated that both of these busts should have blue eyes.

See Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 24 and the similar examples sold in these Rooms on 28 March 1977, lot 135, and the example from the Nyffeler Collection sold on 9 June 1986, lot 85.

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