Napoléon: Une collection historique

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A burl walnut and gilt-brass tea chest, bearing the coat-of-arms of Napoleon I, by Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Paris, circa 1800

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 EUR

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Description

the plain mounts, the cover centred with an escutcheon engraved with the imperial arms, the interior with three compartments, inscribed on the rim ‘Biennais Md Tabletier Ebéniste au Singe Violet, rue St Honoré n°511’

Haut. 14 cm, larg. 30,5 cm, prof. 16,5 cm ; Height. 5 ½ in, width. 12 in, depth. 6 ½ in

Probably part of the campaign service of Napoleon I (1765-1821), perhaps taken to the island of Saint Helena;

Perhaps Napoleon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte (1811-1832);

Probably given by Letizia Bonaparte, Madame Mère (1750-1836) to Jean-Thomas Arrighi de Casanova, Duke of Padua (1778-1853), Château de Courson;

Collection du général Arrighi, duc de Padoue, collections princières et à divers, Osenat, Fontainebleau, 15 June 2003, lot 502.

P.-J. Chalençon, Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait, 2005, p. 98

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