Presentation Snuffbox of the Duchesse de Montpensier
Presentation Snuffbox of the Duchesse de Montpensier
France, Paris
1846–1848
1846–1848
Gold, silver, enamel, diamonds
2.3 × 8.9 × 5.7 cm
Marks: maker’s mark, Paris 3e titre (18ct), 1838–1919
The cipher is for Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchesse de Monpensier. In a letter to Queen Victoria written in 1846, Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1790–1865) observed: ‘The Infanta is evidently good looking … Her eyes seem … very lovely and she has fine teeth and hair. She is also very graceful … rather tall already and likely still to grow’.
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