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A group of Napoleon III and Eugenie
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A group of Napoleon III and Eugenie
modelled standing wearing military uniform, Eugenie seated beside him, wearing a bodice and full skirts, an ermine trimmed cloak drapped over her knee, well coloured, on a shaped oval gilt-line base, circa 1854 (light glaze crazing and minor flaking to enamels) -- 23cm. high See illustration
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Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. C241, figs. 80 and 80a.