Lot n° .E
Estimation :
800 - 1200
EUR
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Result
: 850EUR
- Lot 0
French work, circa 1840.
Rare bracelet of the princess Clémentine d'Orléans.
In 18k yellow gold with small rectangular links engraved with scrolls and articulated on either side of a central element decorated with braided hair of H.R.H. Princess Clementine d'Orléans surrounded by blue enamel nets and at the four corners of fine half pearls. It is engraved under the bottom "Pcesse Clémentine 9bre 1840".
Length : 17 cm - Gross weight : 23,7 g
The rectangular case, containing the hair of Princess Clementine d'Orléans, has a small hole on one side that probably corresponds to the location of the winding mechanism of a watch it was originally intended to contain.
In a brown leather case with gold fillet frame and mark of the jeweler of the kings of Spain in Seville:"
Joyeria-Reyes/ Sevilla
".
Provenance:
-offered by Princess Clementine of Orleans to the Duchess of Massa, née Anne-Charlotte, known as "Nancy", Macdonald.
Then by descent until the sale of the estate of the Dukes of Massa and the case of Nancy Macdonald, Duchess of Massa.
Nancy Macdonald, wife of Nicolas Sylvestre Régnier, second Duke of Massa, was the lady-in-waiting of the French Queen Marie-Amélie and of her daughters, the royal princesses, of whom Clémentine d'Orléans (1817-1907) was the last. This bracelet was offered as a souvenir by Clémentine d'Orléans to the Duchess of Massa.
Clémentine d'Orléans (1817-1907)was a French princess, daughter of King Louis-Philippe I. Nicknamed the "Medici of the Coburgs", she married Prince Auguste of Saxe-Coburg. The couple had several children including King Ferdinand I of the Bulgarians.
Anne-Charlotte de MACDONALD (1792-1870), known as Nancy, DuchessofMassa.
Daughter of Etienne de MACDONALD (1765-1840), Marshal of FRANCE and Duke of TARENTE, she married in 1810, Sylvestre RÉGNIER de MASSA (1783-1851), Duke of MASSA. The couple had five children.
Under the July Monarchy (1830-1848), she was
lady-in-waiting to the mother of Queen Louise of the Belgians, namely: to the last Queen of the French, Marie-Amélie de Bourbon, and to two of her daughters, Princesses Clémentine and Marie d'Orléans.
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