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All auctions / Silver & Gold / AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY TORTOISESHELL BOX DEPICTING A PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON
AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY TORTOISESHELL BOX DEPICTING A PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEO French, of circular form with gold coloured metal mounts (unmarked), the cover with an oval portrait miniature of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, French School, circa 1815, painted wearing the uniform of the Chasseurs-à-cheval with red collar and watered silk sash, on ivory, 4cm oval, the box 5.5cm diameter This lot is subject to CITES due to the tortoiseshell. Ivory exemption certificate Footnote:This representation of the Emperor is a variation of a version evolved by the miniaturist Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Augustin and often used by him as well as Jean-Baptiste Isabey and other contemporaries. For versions by Augustin and Isabey see the Wallace Collection, M8/M9 and M209. Footnote:This representation of the Emperor is a variation of a version evolved by the miniaturist Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Augustin and often used by him as well as Jean-Baptiste Isabey and other contemporaries. For versions by Augustin and Isabey see the Wallace Collection, M8/M9 and M209. sculpture
Estimate:$2,026.9
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