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An Imperial gift from Napoleon in 1811, a gold and diamond ring, by Marc-Etienne Nitot, circa 1810-1811

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

approximately 3.50 carats, the center in stippled gold decorated with the crowned 'N' in white gold or platinum enhanced with dutch rose-cut diamonds

 

Weight: 7.34 gr. 

Offered to Mr Hans de Bruyère, NImegen commander of the garde d’honneur à cheval by Napoléon during his visit in the ancient kingdom of Holland in september-october 1811.

By descent to his family until

Vente Nicolay et Couturier, Paris, 11 December 1996, lot 63

P.-J. Chalençon, Napoléon, La collection, Paris, 2019, ill. p. 58.

P.-J. Chalençon, B. Topping and R. Hull Etling, Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, Floride, 2005, exhibition catalogue, 2005-2011, ill. p. 49

G. Gengembre, Napoléon, L'empereur immortel, Italie, 2002, p. 233

Treasures of the Emperor and Imperial France : The Pierre-Jean Chalençon Collection, exhibition catalogue, Villa Alba, Melbourne, 1999, ill. p. 19, fig. 138

R. Hurel and D. Scarisbrick, Chaumet deux siècles de création, Paris, 1998, exhibition catalogue, Musée Carnavalet, 25 march - 28 june 1998, ill. p. 24

L. Bucquoy, Les gardes d’honneur du Premier Empire, Nancy, 1908

A.Maze-Sencier, les fournisseurs de Napoléon Ier et des deux impératrices : d’après des documents inédits, tirés des Archives nationales, des archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères et des archives des manufactures de Sèvres et des Gobelins, Paris, 1893, pp.178-179, 332-333

Chaumet deux siècles de création, Musée Carnavalet, 25 march - 28 june 1998

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

La place Vendôme: Art, pouvoir et fortune, Hotel de Villemaré, march - october 2003

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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

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Le sacre de Napoléon, Chapelle des Jésuites de Saint-Omer, 18 june - 25 september 2022