French bisque bust of Napoleon Bonaparte with blue Sèvres base
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French bisque bust of Napoleon Bonaparte with blue Sèvres base
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French bust of Napoleon Bonaparte with blue Sèvres base:
(1769 – 1821) General during the French Revolution, he became Emperor of the First French Empire; finally defeated in the Battle of Waterloo. He was considered a tyrant by his opponents, but to his European subjects he symbolised genius, military and political power. Marked, ‘Mre Imple de Sèvres’; in Continental porcelain with gilt-decorated dark blue Sèvres base.
Circa 1880.
Height: | 9¼" | - | 23.5cm |
Width: | 5" | - | 12.5cm |
Projection: | 4" | - | 10.0cm |
Glossary Words
bisque, biscuit
An unglazed white porcelain, used in England to make figures or busts from c.1846. Also known as Parian ware.
Parian ware
A type of bisque porcelain. It was named, by Minton, after Paros, a Greek island renowned for its fine-textured, white marble of the same name. It was also contemporaneously referred to as Statuary Porcelain by Copeland. Parian was essentially designed to imitate carved marble, with the great advantage that it was prepared in a liquid form and cast in a mould, enabling mass production. See bisque or biscuit