TWELVE VARIOUS FRENCH SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CUT-GLASS TOILET BOTTLES, PARIS, CIRCA 1816 | A group of 12 cut-glass bottles, the gold caps engraved with the marriage coat of arms of the duc and duchesse de Berry, probably French, circa 1816

the majority of the acanthus bordered covers engraved with accole arms between lily swags, the bottles various shapes and sizes, each with diamond-cut bodies, some with 1809-1819 French provincial petite guarantee mark

Commissioned for the marriage of the Duc de Berry and Marie Caroline of Naples-Sicily on 17 June 1816.

Appears to be a composite suite from three different sets. All mounts apparently unmarked apart a couple. The largest of the group's contain seven bottles. The mounts all crisp. One with large chip to neck mount, one with loose stopper and one with stopper firmly fused into neck. Glass otherwise in good order but for some minor nibbles to the edges. One spare cover with glass body absent. Another pair of bottles with slightly different covers but same coats-of-arms. Both in good order. Three other bottles (One lacking cover) all in a good used condition. The two covers erased with gilding lost to each top.
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The accole arms are those of Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry (1778-1820) and his spouse Marie-Caroline of Naples and Sicily (1798-1870) below the coronet of the Enfants de France.