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
Belgium, 1811/1814
glass and silver
7,5 cm
COD.
910