Sale 9350
London, South Kensington
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28 March 2002
Price realised
GBP 294
Estimate
An equestrian figure of Eugenie, Empress of France wearing veiled hat and riding dress, modelled seated in the saddle to the right, well coloured, on titled shaped oval gilt-line base, circa 1854 (minor damages) -- 30cm. high; and two equestrian figures of Napoleon III and Eugenie, modelled seated in the saddle to the left and right, sparsely coloured and gilt, circa 1854 (some damages) -- 27cm. high See illustration (3)
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Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. C242, fig. 83.
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