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AN ITALIAN SILVER FILIGREE EQUESTRIAN MODEL OF CARLO ALBERTO, KING OF SARDINIA, (1798-1849)

MARKED INDISTINCTLY, MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN SILVER FILIGREE EQUESTRIAN MODEL OF CARLO ALBERTO, KING OF SARDINIA, (1798-1849)
MARKED INDISTINCTLY, MID-19TH CENTURY
Realistically modelled, depicted in 19th century uniform, set on stepped wood plinth, applied at the short ends with the Savoia arms below a coronet and variously applied with further swags
23 in. (58.4 cm.) high including plinth

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Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, (1798-1849) succeeded his distant cousin Carlo Felice in 1831 as king. His name is bound with the first Italian statute and the First War of Italian Independence, (1848-1849). He abdicated in favour of his son Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy, (1820-1878) after his army was defeated at the Battle of Novara. He went into exile in Portugal and died there in 1849.

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