MARIE-ANTOINETTE- CHARLES X. Marie-Antoinette... - Lot 210 - Marie-Saint Germain

MARIE-ANTOINETTE- CHARLES X. Marie-Antoinette Ceramic Necessaire, circa 1785. The bowl, 31 x 24 x 6 cm; the jug, 12 x 16 x 23 cm. Accidents, defects and old restorations on the jug. Two marks under the bowl (BO and CP crowned in red) and a trace of signature. According to some enclosed papers: "This set was placed in the Queen's toilet. A demoiselle Puyol, who received it from a lady-in-waiting attached to the queen, kept it for most of the 19th century. After Mademoiselle Puyol's death in Tours in 1880, it was exhibited in Paris in 1889. This set appeared in the catalog of the 1889 Exposition Universelle, and then in the exhibition of old earthenware, "La Céramique à travers les âges", at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Tours in 1892." Enclosed: a letter dated 1955 in which Madame André Stouls offers the necessary items for a Marie-Antoinette exhibition at the Musée de Versailles, a press clipping and annotated leaflets concerning the piece. The CP crowned mark in red, blue or gold corresponds to the marks on porcelain produced by the factory of the Comte d'Artois, the future Charles X, between 1779 and 1796.