AN IMPERIAL NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, SILVERED AND MARBLE GUERIDON

Lot 41
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1450974
Lot 41 | AN IMPERIAL NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, SILVERED AND MARBLE GUERIDON
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
AN IMPERIAL NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, SILVERED AND MARBLE GUERIDON
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The circular calacatta viola marble top inset with a silvered roundel incised with the French imperial arms and inscribed 'DERNIER SOUVENIR/ DE/ SA MAJESTE EMPEREUR NAPOLEON III/ A MONSIEUR N.W.J. STRODE./ CAMDEN PLACE/ CHISLEHUST./JANVIER 1873.', with a tooled edge, supported by acanthus-wrapped scrolling supports and a central stiff-leaf cast shaft with foliate boss, terminating in a foliate base, flanked by four winged putti with scrolling foliate bodies, interspersed with draped lambrequins surmounted by the Imperial crown and decorated with the Imperial eagle and the 'E' cypher of Empress Eugenie alternatively, on a shaped quadripartite plinth with gadrooned edge, on castors
33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high; 36 ¼ in. (92 cm.) diameter




Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned by Empress Eugenie,
removed in 1871 to Camden Place, Chislehurst by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie,
given to Nathaniel Strode on the death of Napoleon III in January 1873.
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