• Centuries of Style: Silver, Eu auction at Christies

    Sale 5962

    Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes

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    27 - 28 November 2012

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    • ELISE DE MAUSSION (FRENCH, FL.
    Lot 358

    ELISE DE MAUSSION (FRENCH, FL. C. 1857 - 1880)

    Price realised

    GBP 3,750

    Estimate

    GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

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    ELISE DE MAUSSION (FRENCH, FL. C. 1857 - 1880)
    Napoleon III (1808-1873), Emperor of the French 1852-1870, in black coat with gold embroidered oak leaf collar and gold epaulettes, wearing the red moiré sash, badge and breast-star of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the Military Medal of Napoleon III, black cloak; stormy sky background
    signed 'E de M' (lower right)
    on porcelain
    oval, 5 3/16 in. (132 mm.) high, ormolu easel-stand frame with tied ribbon surmount, the strut stamped 'Photographie Walery 9 bis Rue de Londres Paris'

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