A travel trunk from the suite of Queen Marie-Antoinette and a large towel that served her during the coronation of 1775 were auctioned off Sunday at high prices during a sale at Versailles. They started well above their estimate.
During this sale, which bore the name of ‘Royauté à Versailles’, ‘we witnessed beautiful auction battles in the room, on the phone and on the internet’ between international collectors, said the auction house Osenat in a communicated.
The trunk of the suite of the Queen of France, with inscriptions on the cover in small brass nails ‘Queen’s bedroom n ° 10’, left for 43,750 euros on an estimate of 8,000 to 10,000 euros. It is lined with leather, with a rounded cover, reinforced and clad with studded wrought iron bands.
King’s hair
Precious testimony of the coronation of Louis XVI, a large rectangular napkin by Marie-Antoinette, damask, decorated with fleur-de-lis in leafy wreaths around the edge and a bouquet of roses in the center, was sold for 14,500 euros, against an estimate of 2000 to 3000 euros.
A rock crystal medallion in the shape of a heart encircled in gold and containing the king’s hair was auctioned for 4000 euros.
The royal couple will keep very good memories of the coronation ceremony and the consecutive festivities. Marie-Antoinette wrote to her mother in Vienna: ‘It is an amazing thing and very happy at the same time to be so well received two months after the revolt, and despite the high cost of bread, which unfortunately continues’ …
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