Round brown tortoiseshell box mounted in 18K (750) gold chased with interlacing, the lid inlaid with a presumed ...

Round brown tortoiseshell box mounted in 18K (750) gold chased with interlacing, the lid inlaid with a presumed oval miniature portrait of the Dauphin Louis-Charles de France, future Louis XVII (1785-1795), aged about 4 years, in a pigeon's throat costume possibly for the mourning of his brother Louis-Joseph de France (1781-1789).
Paris, 1774-1780.
Discharge by Jean-Baptiste Fouache.
D.7,1 cm.
Miniature : 3,9 x 3,3 cm.
Exhibition : Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1900.
Provenance :
- Collection of Eugène Marie Joseph de Goujon, marquis de Thuisy (1836-1913).
- His sale, Drouot, May 30, 1901.
- Collection Gaston Menier (1855-1934).
- Its sale, November 22, 1936, lot 68 (as "presumed portrait of Louis XVII").
- Pescheteau sale, Drouot, June 18, 1970, lot 42 (as "portrait in bust of a blond child").
- Alain Bancel Collection (1927-2002).
- His sale, Piasa, Drouot, May 21, 2003, lot 309 (as "presumed portrait of the new Dauphin Louis-Charles").
- French private collection.