Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
PHILIPPE PROCHIETTO, CALLED PROCHET (SWISS, 1825-1890)
Lot 333

PHILIPPE PROCHIETTO, CALLED PROCHET (SWISS, 1825-1890)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,125

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PHILIPPE PROCHIETTO, CALLED PROCHET (SWISS, 1825-1890)
Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (1822-1891), Prince Napoleon, called 'Plon Plon', in black coat with gold embroidered oak leaf collar and gold epaulettes, wearing the red moiré sash, badge and breast-star of the French Order of the Legion of Honour
enamel
oval, 1 3/8 in. (35 mm.) high, gold bezel

Specialist note

The sitter was the second son of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. His unusual nickname 'Plon Plon' derives from his pronunciation of his name when he was a child.
A signed variant, part of a bracelet containing five enamels of the sitter's family, is at Malmaison (illustrated in N. Hubert and A. Pougetoux, Châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau [...], Paris, 1989, p. 234).