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Description:
Rococo Revival circa 1850. Room potpourris in the form of Louis XIV the Sun King of France on a scrolled base. In bourgeoisie homes in France and America bottles like theses were filled with very string liquid potpourri. Before guest would visit servants would take the lids off and fan the tops so that the sent would perfume the room. Height 9" 1/2 by 5" wide. Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister (Premier ministre), the Italian Cardinal Jules Mazarin, in 1661. Louis remained on the throne until his death in September 1715, four days before his seventy-seventh birthday. His reign lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, the longest documented for any European monarch to date. Louis XIV is popularly known as the Sun King (French: le Roi Soleil). Louis believed in the Divine Right of Kings, the theory that the King was crowned by God and accountable to him alone. For much of Louis's reign, France stood as the leading power in Europe, engaging in three major wars—the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession—and two minor conflicts—the War of Devolution, and the War of the Reunions. Men who featured prominently in the political and military life of France during this period include Mazarin,Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Turenne, Vauban. French culture likewise flourished during this era, producing a number of figures of great renown, including Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Le Brun, Rigaud, Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin Mansart, Claude Perrault and Le Nôtre. Louis XIV continued the work of his predecessor to create a centralized state governed from the capital in order to sweep away the remnants of feudalism which had persisted in parts of France. He succeeded in breaking the power of the provincial nobility, much of which had risen in revolt during his minority called the Fronde, and forced many leading nobles to live with him in his lavish Palace of Versailles. Consequently, he has long been considered the archetypal absolute monarch of early modern Europe.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 00322 |
| Condition:
Good |
Year:
1850
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| Country:
Paris France |
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| Title:
Napoleon lll figure of Louis XIV Sun King of France Old Paris porcelain |
Style:
Rococo Revival |
| Materials:
painted porcelain |
Type:
Rococo Revival |
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