PARIS - BISCUIT PORCELAIN BUST OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The sculpted section is executed in unglazed white porcelain biscuit.

Hard-paste porcelain.

Rare porcelain biscuit statuette depicting Napoleon Bonaparte in bust form, portrayed in the military uniform of the First Empire.

The Emperor is represented facing forward, wearing a high-collared uniform adorned with finely detailed fringed epaulettes. The face displays Napoleon’s emblematic features: a calm gaze, firmly set lips and short hair arranged in softly undulating locks.

The bust rests on a cylindrical pedestal bearing the gilt handwritten inscription “Napoléon”, itself mounted on a quadrangular base highlighted with gilding.

Mark(s): None,

Dimension(s): H. 14.5 cm - W. 7 cm,

Condition(s): PERFECT CONDITION,

Period: EARLY 19TH CENTURY,

Observation(s): Very minor wear consistent with age and use.

These busts of Napoleon, highly prized during the Empire period and later under the Restoration and the Second Empire by collectors of Napoleonic memorabilia, contributed to the dissemination of the Emperor’s official image within bourgeois and aristocratic interiors.