Crystal scent bottle with Napoleonic portraits

Cut crystal scent bottle with white ceramic paste inlays, with a double portrait of Napoleon and his second wife Marie Louise, later Duchess of Parma. On the back a portrait of their son, the “King of Rome” (1811-1832), based on the Watercolour portrait by Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855). Hinged silver stopper with hallmarks. Produced in the now lost Cristallerie de Vonêche in southern Belgium, in the province of Namur. This process is erroneously called sulphide glass.
Period
Early 19th century

Country

Belgium, 1811/1814

Material

glass and silver

Size

7,5 cm

COD.

910

Labels

antique scent bottles

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