JEAN PETITOT, circa 1680

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JEAN PETITOT, circa 1680

Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France 1643-1715, wearing a brown full-bottomed wig and a white lace collar; blue background; enamel on gold, oval -- 21 mm high, slightly rubbed in the right-hand border; fine rectangular chased silver-gilt mount within a blue-enamelled gold border, on a damaged gold-lined black bonbonnière by Antoine Torlet, Paris 1809-1819 (87 mm diam.)

拍品专文

The Parisian goldsmith Antoine Torlet struck his mark in 1798 and is last mentioned in the Almanach Azur in 1816.