When opened the cabinet consists of 18 drawers as well as 3 shelves. When created it was intended for the Comtesse's bedroom at Versailles but she changed her mind and had it placed in the Palais du Petit-Luxembourg.
Saturday 6 December 2014
Jewellery Cabinet
Jean-Henri Riesener is the workman behind this jewellery cabinet which belonged to the Comtesse de Provence, sister-in-law of Louis XVI. It was finished and delivered in 1787; it was said to have cost 80.000 livres to make. During the revolution it was confiscated and later offered to Napoleon who refused it.
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