TRAVEL BOX WITH FLAT TOP IN RED GILT MOROCCO, WITH... Lot 44

TRAVEL BOX WITH FLAT TOP IN RED GILT MOROCCO, WITH THE SMALL ARMS OF MADAME ADELAIDE (1732-1800), DAUGHTER OF LOUIS XV Louis XV period. Oak covered with calfskin. H. 22 cm W. 57 cm D. 41 cm The set is in excellent condition. Has its key. This travel box with a slightly curved lid has hinges on the corners and edges. It has side handles. The lid is decorated with "lace". It is stamped in the center of a cartouche with the coat of arms of Madame Adelaide, under a crown of flowers and framed by knotted palms. The interior is covered with a blue moiré paper. The archives of the Menus-Plaisirs show that almost every year, Mesdames, daughters of Louis XV, ordered one or more morocco chests. When they were judged to be damaged, they were passed on to members of their suite. The daughters of Louis XV also had large armorial trunks delivered to them to contain their belongings when they travelled. Each of them had its own color: red for Madame Adélaïde, yellow for Madame Sophie, blue for Madame Louise and green for Madame Victoire. In 1752 Simonneau delivered five chests covered in red morocco with a coat of arms to Madame Adélaïde, then Sirois took over until 1768. Compartments and bags inside the chests were used to store toilet baskets, hats, baskets, snuff boxes, diamonds or even gold or silver coins. Madame Adélaïde was housed on the first floor of the central body of the Château de Versailles until the Revolution. She lived in the château de Bellevue until 1791, emigrated to Trieste in Italy where she died on February 27, 1800. References : - Small red morocco trunk of the Louis XV period with the arms of Mesdames of dimensions 22 x 57 cm (identical to ours) by Pierre Vente (signed under the cartouche of arms on the lid). Sale Sotheby's Parke Bernet, London, Rosebery Mentmore, 18 May 1987, vol.1 furniture lot n° 109 - Then Sotheby's sale, Paris, April 17, 2019, Sylvain Lévy-Alban : Rive Droite / Rive Gauche, lot n° 104. - Hôtel des Ventes de Monaco, April 30, 2016, casket of Madame Adélaïde daughter of Louis XV 21,5 x 57 x 41 cm (identical dimensions). - An almost identical box, signed Pierre, was sold at Christie's, La Vie de Château, Jean-Louis Remilleux Collection, in Paris, on September 28 and 29, 2015, lot n°400. Sold for €35,000. Bibliography: - See the exhibition book "Louis XIV, a moment of perfection in French art. See the exhibition book "Louis XIV, un moment de perfection de l'art français", fig. 551, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Imprimerie nationale, 1974. - Pierre Verlet, "Recherches sur quelques coffres en usage à la cour de France à propos de deux coffres du Musée de Lisbonne", in João Couto, in memoriam, Lisbon, 1971, p. 241.