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Lot 615
FOUR FRENCH PRESSED BONE SNUFF-BOXES
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Closed22 June 2011
Price Realised
EUR 1,625
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FOUR FRENCH PRESSED BONE SNUFF-BOXES
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
One depicting Napoleon and troops before the pyramids with his quote songez que du haut de ces monuments quarante siecles vous contemplent - 9.2 cm. wide; Two in the shape of a bicorne, one depicting Napoleon at St Helena, the other Napoleon on horseback - each 4.8 cm. high; another depicting Napoleon and his son the King of Rome - 7.1 cm. wide
Together with two papier mache and one faux tortoiseshell snuff-box each with a depiction of Napoleon to the lid - 7-8 cm. diam. and 9 cm. wide; A pressed brass and tole-peinte box, French, circa 1806, depicting Napoleon on the lid and his victories on the base; And a cigarette case depicting the funerary procession of Napoleon's ashes in Paris, 15 December 1840 - 14 cm. wide (9)
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
One depicting Napoleon and troops before the pyramids with his quote songez que du haut de ces monuments quarante siecles vous contemplent - 9.2 cm. wide; Two in the shape of a bicorne, one depicting Napoleon at St Helena, the other Napoleon on horseback - each 4.8 cm. high; another depicting Napoleon and his son the King of Rome - 7.1 cm. wide
Together with two papier mache and one faux tortoiseshell snuff-box each with a depiction of Napoleon to the lid - 7-8 cm. diam. and 9 cm. wide; A pressed brass and tole-peinte box, French, circa 1806, depicting Napoleon on the lid and his victories on the base; And a cigarette case depicting the funerary procession of Napoleon's ashes in Paris, 15 December 1840 - 14 cm. wide (9)
FOUR FRENCH PRESSED BONE SNUFF-BOXES
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
One depicting Napoleon and troops before the pyramids with his quote songez que du haut de ces monuments quarante siecles vous contemplent - 9.2 cm. wide; Two in the shape of a bicorne, one depicting Napoleon at St Helena, the other Napoleon on horseback - each 4.8 cm. high; another depicting Napoleon and his son the King of Rome - 7.1 cm. wide
Together with two papier mache and one faux tortoiseshell snuff-box each with a depiction of Napoleon to the lid - 7-8 cm. diam. and 9 cm. wide; A pressed brass and tole-peinte box, French, circa 1806, depicting Napoleon on the lid and his victories on the base; And a cigarette case depicting the funerary procession of Napoleon's ashes in Paris, 15 December 1840 - 14 cm. wide (9)
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
One depicting Napoleon and troops before the pyramids with his quote songez que du haut de ces monuments quarante siecles vous contemplent - 9.2 cm. wide; Two in the shape of a bicorne, one depicting Napoleon at St Helena, the other Napoleon on horseback - each 4.8 cm. high; another depicting Napoleon and his son the King of Rome - 7.1 cm. wide
Together with two papier mache and one faux tortoiseshell snuff-box each with a depiction of Napoleon to the lid - 7-8 cm. diam. and 9 cm. wide; A pressed brass and tole-peinte box, French, circa 1806, depicting Napoleon on the lid and his victories on the base; And a cigarette case depicting the funerary procession of Napoleon's ashes in Paris, 15 December 1840 - 14 cm. wide (9)
Part of this lot is illustrated in G.A. Brongers, Van gouwenaar tot bruyère pijp, Amerongen, 1978, p. 108 and in G.A. Brongers, Nicotania Tabacum, Haarlem, 1964, p. 210