Lot n° 326
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SILVER and porphyry PAPER PRESS made by FROMENT MEURICE from - Lot 326
SILVER and porphyry PAPER PRESS made by FROMENT MEURICE from a design by Honoré Daumet in memory of the donation of the Château de Chantilly to the Institut de France. It features, on one side, a circular miniature representing the château, signed "M. Dolle pinxit 1888" and, on the other, a medallion featuring the profile of the Duc d'Aumale sculpted by Paulin Tasset after Jules Clément Chaplain (1887).
Height: 21 cm Length: 23 cm Depth: 12 cm Diameter of medallions: 9.5 cm.
Note: This is one of five commissioned by Henri d'Orléans, Duc d'Aumale, and presented to Henri Limbourg.
Enclosed is a letter from Raoul de Broglie, Deputy Curator of the Institut de France, dated April 6, 1970, together with its descriptive sheet (to be given to the purchaser).
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