Golden Fleece Order of Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême

See also order of the Holy Spirit breast star with diamonds and emeralds https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...is-antoine-of-france-duke-of-angouleme.28781/

Sapphire, ruby and diamond neck badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, circa 1820s/1830s.
Approximate height 149 mm.

The riband carrier set with five cushion-shaped diamonds, supporting three detachable pieces, the first of laurel wreath design set with a cushion-shaped diamond, framed by similarly cut diamonds, width 56.5mm, the second representing the flintstone centering a cushion-shaped sapphire weighing 8.90 carats, embellished with circular-cut rubies, and the third forming the Golden Fleece Badge itself, set with cushion-shaped diamonds, the reverse of textured gold.​

Under a different light.

Original case with the coat of arms of the Duke of Angouleme.

 

Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the last dauphin of France and a prominent figure in the restoration of the Bourbon line after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814.

Angoulême was the elder son of the comte d’Artois (afterward Charles X of France) and Marie Thérèse of Savoy. When the revolution broke out in 1789, he left France with his father. In 1799 he married his cousin Marie Thérèse Charlotte, the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. After living in Poland and England, Angoulême returned to France in 1814 and with British help raised the royal standard again at Bordeaux. As chief of the royalist army in the southern Rhône River valley, he was unable to prevent Napoleon’s return to Paris. After Waterloo and the second restoration of Louis XVIII, Angoulême served Louis loyally. During the reign of his father, Charles X, he worked to rid the army of former imperial officers and commanded the French expedition that helped quell an anti-Bourbon revolt in Spain (1823). In 1830, when Charles was compelled to abdicate, Angoulême renounced his claim to the throne and went into exile.
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Duke was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1823 after he commanded the French army in the southern conquest of Spain and helped his cousin Ferdinand VII to restore royal power, becoming the sole ruler of Spain.

 

Obverse.

Reverse.