"Large Royalist Dish, Portrait Of Marie Isabelle d'Orléans Countess Of Paris, Napoleon III Period , Creil & Montereau"
Old & large royalist earthenware dish from Creil & Montereau. Large size model measuring 50cm in diameter. Rich pre-Raphaelite decoration depicting in its center the portrait of Princess Marie Isabelle of Orleans. Perimeter decorated with heads of cherubs and fleur-de-lys In very good condition. Marie-Isabelle d'Orléans, born María Isabel de Orleans y Borbón on September 21, 1848 in Seville and died on April 23, 1919, in Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville, was an Infanta of Spain (granddaughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, but also of the King of the French Louis-Philippe I), who bears by her marriage the courtesy titles of Princess of Orléans and Countess of Paris. She left France with her family after the vote of the law of June 22, 1886, known as the “law of exile”. After the death of her husband, she returned to the estates of her father, the Duke of Galliera and Montpensier, and died in Seville at the age of 70.