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拍品专文
This rare Royal leather coffret, struck with the cypher MJL surmounted by the Savoy eagle, was almost certainly delivered by the Menus Plaisirs for the use of Marie-Joséphine-Louise (1753-1810), princess of Savoy and Comtesse de Provence, wife of the future Louis XVIII.
It closely relates to coffers conceived by Pierre Vente (b. 1722, active until 1792) and supplied to Mesdames, Louis XV’s daughters. One of these caskets was subsequently in the collection of Baron Arthur de Rothschild and exhibited in ‘Louis XV, un moment de perfection de l’art Français’, Paris, 1974, cat. 551. An almost identical coffer was sold from the collection of the 5th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, Sotheby’s house sale, 1977, lot 109.
It closely relates to coffers conceived by Pierre Vente (b. 1722, active until 1792) and supplied to Mesdames, Louis XV’s daughters. One of these caskets was subsequently in the collection of Baron Arthur de Rothschild and exhibited in ‘Louis XV, un moment de perfection de l’art Français’, Paris, 1974, cat. 551. An almost identical coffer was sold from the collection of the 5th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, Sotheby’s house sale, 1977, lot 109.