Napoléon: Une collection historique

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A French Empire mahogany, mahogany veneered, ebony, ivory and bone games box, attributed to Martin-Guillaume Biennais, probably belonging to Emperor Napoleon I in Fontainebleau

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Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

rectangular, the lid centred with an ebony escutcheon engraved with the N under an imperial crown and the words ‘Fontainebleau’, the spandrels are decorated with the imperial Eagle, and a push-button opens to reveal an interior lined with blue silk and trimmed with silver, comprising six compartments with five compartments for tokens covered on the edges with polychrome silk, the box contains painted bone and ivory tokens decorated with the four suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades

Haut. 5 cm, larg. 31,5 cm, prof. 24,5 cm ; height 2 in, width 12 1/4 in, depth 9 3/4 in

Please note that this lot contains elephant ivory the export of which outside the EU is now prohibited pursuant to European regulation 2021/2280 of 16 December 2021. Pursuant to the UK Ivory Act 2018, clients based in the United Kingdom are not able to bid on / purchase this lot. Sotheby's will be able to provide the buyer with the intra-community certificate attached to this item.

Napoléon Ist (1769-1821), for the château of Fontainebleau

Appraised by Jean-Pierre Duchiron (1953-2011), an expert in arms and historical memorabilia who certified this box in an inventory for the owner prior to 2002

P.-J. Chalençon, Napoléon, La Collection, Paris, 2019, p. 203

P.-J. Chalençon, B. Topping and R. Hull Etling, Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, Floride, 2005, exhibition catalogue, 2005-2011, p. 59

G. Gengembre, Napoléon, L'empereur immortel, Italie, 2002, p. 236

Treasures of the Emperor and Imperial France : The Pierre-Jean Chalençon Collection, exhibition catalogue, Villa Alba, Melbourne, 1999, p. 22, fig. 179

Related Literature

A. Maze Censier, Les Fournisseurs de Napoléon Ier et deux deux impératrices, Paris, 1893, p. 70-71

Treasures of the Emperor and Imperial France : The Pierre-Jean Chalençon Collection, Villa Alba Museum, Melbourne, 1999

Souveraines de légendes : de Sissi à Diana, quinze destins d'exception, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, 11 December 1998 - 8 January 1999

Napoléon et la Vendée, hôtel du départment, 18 May - 17 October 2004

Bonaparte et la Vendée, logis de La Chabotterie, 1 May - 17 October 2004

Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, A Travelling Exhibition from Russell Etling Company, 2005-2011

Napoleon: Revolution to Empire, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2 June – 7 October 2012

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