French Billet Doux/ Mmme de Pompadour's flowers, and others i18th century tems of interest

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French Billet Doux. 1770s made of a light wood, sanded smooth to accept the paint. This exquisite piece carried correspondence of the utmost secrecy between lovers.

Mme de Pompadour had a garden of realistic looking Sevres china flowers at her château at Bellevue, cunningly fashioned so that they smelt of a heady floral oil. The effect must have been absolutely divine but was also divinely expensive.

"L'Offrande à l'Amour" (detail), Copper plate printing on cotton, Oberkampf factory in Jouy, around 1785

En français ou en anglais , je n'ai pas besoin de parler ..les toiles de jouy parlent toutes seules.
Ces collections sont disponibles dans notre show room avec beaucoup d'autres échantillons aussi

In french or english, I don't need to talk . Toiles of jouy talk for themselves.

Sevres Etrustcan Breast Cups, flesh colored porcelain with pink nipple and made for drinking milk. Ordered for the Laiterie, a fanciful neoclassical dairy at Chateau Rambouillet purchased by Louis XVI for Marie Antoinette in June 1787.

Petits appartements, Chateau de Chantilly, Oise, France. Petite singerie: “Small Monkeys Room” by Christophe Huet  Singerie is the French word for “Monkey Trick”. It is a genre depicting monkeys apeing human behavior, often fashionably attired, intended as a diverting sight, always with a gentle cast of mild satire.

~Le Reveillon ~ A reproduction of the Montgolfier Brothers' balloon. The original was the first manned balloon ever flown, in 1783 from Paris in France ~*

The Marie-Antoinette Blue Diamond: 5.64 carat blue heart shaped diamond which the queen had set in a ring. The queen gave the ring to her close friend Princess Lobomirska, shortly before her trail in 1791. After the Polish princess died her estate was passed to her four daughters. The diamond became the property of Count Wladimir Potocki through his marriage to one of the daughters. It belongs to a private collector in Europe and is not on display to the public.