25 novembre 2015
Underage marriage and court scandal: 18th century Meissen in Bonhams Ceramics Sale
A highly important Meissen armorial beaker with the arms of Naples-Sicily and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania, circa 1737, estimate £20,000-30,000. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON .- In 1738, Elizabeth Farnese, the Queen of Spain, devised a proxy marriage between her...