Napoléon I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French 1804-1815, facing right, wearing the green chasseurs-à-cheval uniform with red collar, gold epaulettes, and red-piped facings, decorated with the red moiré sash, silver breast-star and badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Order of the Iron Crown
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SCHOOL OF ISABEY, CIRCA 1815
Napoléon I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French 1804-1815, facing right, wearing the green chasseurs-à-cheval uniform with red collar, gold epaulettes, and red-piped facings, decorated with the red moiré sash, silver breast-star and badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Order of the Iron Crown
indistinctly signed (left-hand edge)
oval, 2¾in. (71mm.) high, gilt-metal mounted on the cover of a circular black tortoiseshell bonbonnière, 3½in. (87mm.) diam., with silver-gilt mounts marked with the petite garantie hallmark for silver, Paris, 1809-1819, and an indistinct silversmith's mark
Napoléon I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French 1804-1815, facing right, wearing the green chasseurs-à-cheval uniform with red collar, gold epaulettes, and red-piped facings, decorated with the red moiré sash, silver breast-star and badge of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Order of the Iron Crown
indistinctly signed (left-hand edge)
oval, 2¾in. (71mm.) high, gilt-metal mounted on the cover of a circular black tortoiseshell bonbonnière, 3½in. (87mm.) diam., with silver-gilt mounts marked with the petite garantie hallmark for silver, Paris, 1809-1819, and an indistinct silversmith's mark