Napoléon: Une collection historique

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A pair of Sèvres (hard paste) porcelain beau bleu-ground two-handled vases 'Médicis à têtes de Jupiter', circa 1806, presented by Napoléon I to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Benevento in 1807

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June 25, 05:03 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 EUR

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Description

painted by Gilbert Drouet, gilded by Charles-Marie-Pierre Boitel, with a purple bell-flower vine Cobaea scandens entwined around a rope against a broad matt gold-ground band, named in the burnished gilt band below, between gilt borders of palmettes, scrolls and stiff leaves, red stencilled Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres marks and date symbol for Revolutionary year 14, BT gilder's mark for Boitel in gilding, various incised letters and numerals

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Haut. 42 cm diam. 30 cm ; Height 16 ½ in, diam. 11 ¾ in

Presented by Napoléon I to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Benevento, in February 1807, on the occasion of the marriage of Stéphanie Louise Adrienne de Beauharnais to Karl Ludwig Friedrich, Prince of Baden;

Anonymous sale, Artcurial, Paris, 20 June 2006, lot 91

C. Leprince, Napoléon 1er et La Manufacture de Sèvres: l’Art de la Porcelaine au Service de L’Empire, Paris, 2016, p. 184, no. 5

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