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French ivory Vierge Ouvrante, Mirabeau et Mar. (Marie)…
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Sydney
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24-Sep-2017
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French ivory Vierge Ouvrante, Mirabeau et Mar. (Marie) Antoinette, the French Queen's dress enclosing a triptych carved with an audience with Honore Gabriel Riqueti, a/f, height 8.5 cm;catalogue note: Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749 -1791) was a French revolutionary. Moderate in politics, he favoured a constitutional monarchy similar to the British model, and held secret meetings with the Royal Family in an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile them with the Revolution
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