Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France 1774-1792, in gold-embroidered brown velvet coat

Lot n° 419
Diam 5,9cm
Enamelled gold réverbère mount, set into the cover of a circular gold-lined tortoiseshellbonbonnière signed ‘Ouizille et Vachette, Bijoutiers à Paris 20 K. 5.’ with maker’s mark of Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette (1753-1839), struck with the 2nd standard mark and excise mark for gold, Paris 1798-1809 and the Post-Revolutionary Parisian unofficial standard mark for 20.5 carat gold