
A pair of Medici vases commemorating the marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise and the birth of the King of Rome
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June 25, 05:03 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
circa 1812
each signed and dated on the plinth L. jeannest fecit. / 1812
the vase commemorating the birth of the King of Rome inscribed NATIVITAS / NEAPOLEONIS / FRANCISCI / CAROLL JOSEPH / REGIS ROMAE / ANNO DOMINI / MDCCCXI; the Mariage vase inscribed CONJUGIUM / NEAPOLINIS / MAGNI / ET / MARIAE LUDOVICAE / ANNO DOMINI / MDCCCX
bronze, dark brown patina
60cm. high, 23⅝in.; 44cm. diam, 17⅜in.
(2)
Collection Murat;
Sale Me Paul Pescheteau, Paris, 9 March 1964, lot 79;
Sale Rossini, Paris, 13 April 2005, lot 303
Salon de 1812, no.1092 ;
Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, exh. cat., 2005, p.66
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des Artistes vivans, exposés au Musée Napoléon, le 1er novembre 1812, Paris, 1812, p.115 ;
M. A. Dupuy, I. le Masne de Chermont, E. Williamson, Vivant Denon, Directeur des musées sous le Consulat et l'Empire. Correspondances (1802-1815), musée du Louvre, Paris, 1999, t. II, p.831, [2 377].