A FINE VIENNESE RECTANGULAR STEEL AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL TRAVELLING NECESSAIRE, by Nicolas Rozet, Vienna, 1819, containing a large quantity of contemporary implements, the majority Austrian, some struck with the maker's marks BNR and LK, the tooth brushes, Paris, maker's mark JJH

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A FINE VIENNESE RECTANGULAR STEEL AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL TRAVELLING NECESSAIRE, by Nicolas Rozet, Vienna, 1819, containing a large quantity of contemporary implements, the majority Austrian, some struck with the maker's marks BNR and LK, the tooth brushes, Paris, maker's mark JJH

The case: the mother-of-pearl cover in a steel cagework inset with bands of foliage and stylised flowers enclosed in diamond- and cartouche-shaped reserves with acanthus borders, the centre with the crowned monogram F VII for Ferdinand VII of Spain, bordered by a ewer, a lyre and foliate wreaths, the sides of green lacquer simulating malachite with mother-of-pearl borders and steel handles, a steel feathered helm with visor forming the lock plate
15in. (38cm.) wide

The interior: the box constructed of satinwood with leather-lined writing slope, unfolding to raise the marble inkwells, candlesticks and a clock in the back, the movement by Philipp Fertbaur, resting on a satinwood plinth housing a musical movement which is wound by a key and activated by a steel slide shaped as a rosette, the slope opens in two parts to reveal writing implements, two further trays fitted with a large number of writing and drawing instruments, and a drawer containing a toilet- and shaving set, the implements in gold, silver-gilt, steel and mother-of-pearl fitted in buff velvet, the drawer with applied mother-of-pearl label signed 'Nicolas Rozet a las nueve Musas en Viena No 1220', the inside of the cover with a mirror mounted within beaded steel and green lacquer surround, decorated with acanthus leaves and foliage

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Ferdinand VII, King of Spain

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Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1784-1833), was the son of Charles IV (1748-1819) and Maria Louisa Teresa of Parma (1751-1819). Ferdinand succeded when Charles IV abdicated in 1808. However under the influence of Napoleon he renounced his rights in favour of his father in the same year, and with him ceded Spain to Napoleon, who proclaimed his brother Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain. Until the Treaty of Valençay in December 1813, which ended the Spanish War of Independance (Peninsular War, 1808-1813) and his restoration and return to Spain in 1814, Ferdinand VII lived in Exile at the Château de Valençay in France. Although he married four times, he had no sons. When he died in 1833, Ferdinand VII was succeded by his three year old daughter Isabella II (1830-1904), under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction which he had reintroduced. However, as his younger brother Don Carlos (1788-1855) regarded himself as the rightful heir, he assumed the title of Charles V, and the ensuing struggle became known as the 1st Carlist War (1833-1839).

This necessaire was probably commissioned, when the King married for the third time in 1819, Maria Josepha (1803-1829), daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony.

In 1770, the huguenot Nicholas Rozet founded the shop 'The Nine Muses' in Vienna, selling mainly silver and objects of vertu. His son went into partnership with Franz Fischmeister. In 1836 Rozet & Fischmeister were appointed Jewellers to the Court. When Fischmeister became the sole owner in 1875 the French influence in the production ceased and the workshop concentrated on jewellery and silver tableware. The shop is still in existance today