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A SEVRES BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN BISCUIT PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF PRINCESSE DE LAMBELLE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SEVRES BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN BISCUIT PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF PRINCESSE DE LAMBELLE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
In the Wedgwood jasperware style. Of oval form, inscribed in the neck Princesse de Lamballe, marked to the reverse and impressed 6, in a moulded gilt-wood frame
43.5 cm. high x 33 cm. wide

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Lot Essay

Marie-Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan, Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792) was born in Turin. In 1767 she married Louis-Alexandre- Stanislas de Bourbon, Prince de Lamballe, son of the duc de Penthivre and great-grandson of Louis XIV. She was companion and confidante to Marie-Antoinette. She was arrested in 1792 along with Marie-Antoinette and imprisoned. Upon refusal to take an oath against the monarchy, she was delivered to the populace on September 3rd and killed, after which her head was placed on a pike and paraded before the Queen's prison window.

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