Paris, Louis XIV period, between 1680 and 1690.
Brass and pewter marquetry on a brown tortoiseshell background; oak; rosewood; gilt bronze; mirror.
H. 43 cm. (in.); W. 29.5 cm. (in.); D. 25 cm. (in.).
PROVENANCE: collection of Louis de France (1661-1711), known as Monseigneur or le Grand Dauphin and of his second wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria (1660-1690); collection of Louis Philippe I (1673-1850), King of France from 1830 to 1848, and of Queen Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (1782-1866) ; collection of their grandson, Duke Philipp Alexander Maria Ernst of Württemberg (1838-1917) – the only son of Princess Marie of Orléans (1813-1839) and Duke Frederick William Alexander of Württemberg (1804-1881) – and of his wife, Archduchess Maria Theresa Anna of Teschen of Habsburg-Lorraine (1845-1927), Imperial and Royal Highness ; thence by descent, collection of their son, Duke Albrecht of Württemberg (1868-1939), and of his wife Duchess Margarete of Habsburg-Lorraine (1870-1902), niece of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria ; collection of their son, Duke Philipp Albrecht of Württemberg (1893-1975) and of his wife, Rosa Maria of Habsburg-Tuscany (1906-1983) ; then collection of their daughter, Maria Theresa of Württemberg born in 1934), Duchess of Montpensier, and her husband Henri of Orléans (1933-2019), Count of Clermont, parents of Jean of Orléans (born in 1965), Count of Paris and current Orléanist claimant to the French throne.
