Lot n° 12
Estimation :
1200 - 1500
EUR
- Lot 12
Hénin & Cie and Hénin & Vivier, Paris, 1893
RARE PARTY OF ROYAL MENAGERS EXECUTED FOR THE MARRIAGE OF FERDINAND I OF BULGARIA WITH MARIE LOUISE DE BOURBON-PARME - FORTY-THREE PIECES FOR SIX GUESTS.
Engraved with the covenant arms of Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince of Bulgaria (1887) and later King of the Bulgarians (1908) - Purpure a lion rampant crowned Or, overall a shield barry Sable and Or, of ten pieces a crancelin Vert, bendwise overall - and Marie Louise de Bourbon-Parme - Azure three fleurs-de-lys Or on a bordure Gules eight escallops Argent.
Rocaille model with scrolled contours, with shells and acanthus leaves.
Hallmarks: 1st title and master goldsmith for Hénin & Cie and Hénin & Vivier in Paris.
Six table spoons, L. : 21,6 cm
Six table forks, L. : 21,3 cm
Six shellfish forks, L. : 13,6 cm
One cream spoon L. : 20,2 cm,
Total net weight: 1555 g.
Six table knives, L. 25,7 cm
Six dessert forks, L. : 20,6 cm
Six dessert knives, L. : 21,7 cm
Six melon forks, L. : 21,4 cm
(some blades oxidized)
Total gross weight : 1741 g.
Provenance:
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1861-1948), Prince of Bulgaria (1887-1908) then King of the Bulgarians (1908-1918).
By descent
1 200 / 1 500 €
#Lot visible and to be collected at the study
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1861-1948) was the youngest son of Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Clementine of Orleans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe I. He became Prince of Bulgaria (1887) then King of the Bulgarians (1908) under the name of Ferdinand I. He married Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parme in the first marriage (1893). The couple had four children, Boris, Cyrille, Eudoxie and Nadège. Widowed in 1899, he remarried in 1908 to Princess Eléonore Reuss-Köstritz (1908), a union that remained without posterity. Intelligent, refined and cultured, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria was passionate about writing, botany, entomology and philately, but also about trains and their operation. He was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Boris III, after being defeated by the Army of the East in 1918. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria died in Coburg in 1948, shattered by the fall of the Bulgarian monarchy (1946) and the grief of having experienced, in the twilight of his life, the death of his eldest son, King Boris, in 1943 after meeting Chancellor Adolph Hitler, and then the death of his second son, Cyril, executed in 1945 by the Communists while acting as regent for his nephew, H.M. King Simeon II, only seven years old.
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