Description
A rare pair of S white biscuit porcelain busts, of the Comte D'Artois (later Charles X of France) and his daughter in law the Duchesse de Berri, each crisply modelled and raised on circular socle bases, he with an impressed S mark and incised '29 - Nov - SZ', she inscribed 'Mas 14 x bu.SZ' (Mas for Mascret). His plinth cracked and repaired. c.1816, 38cm. (2)
Jean Mascret was a sculpteur r at S from 1810-1848.
The Comte D'Artois, later Charles X, King of France and Navarre, was born at the palace of Versailles. He was the Grandson of Louis XV and the son of Louis dauphin de France who never reigned and his German wife Marie-Josephe of Saxony. He was crowned king of France in 1824 in the cathedral of Reims and reigned until the French revolution of 1830. He was the last king of the senior Bourbon line to reign over France.
Marie-Caroline Bourbon, the Duchesse de Berri, was the daughter of Francois I, King of the Two-Sicilies. She married Charles, Duc de Berri (the second son of Charles X) who was assassinated by Louvel in 1820. At the time of the assassination she was pregnant with the Comte de Chambourd (Henri V), who was the last descendant of the ancient branch of the House of Bourbon.