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FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
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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)
Literature
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
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Judith Herngreen
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