SET OF EIGHT YELLOW PORCELAIN PLATES WITH ARMS OF NAPOLÉON 1ST probably Manufacture de Paris, first half of the 19th century
Lot 521
Sold
Mark ‘two crossed arrows’; inscribed ‘Offert par le Duc de Masséna à la Maréchale Berthier’ (on the underside)
D. 27 cm (each)
Provenance: Private collection, USA
André Masséna, Prince of Essling, Duke of Rivoli (born Andrea Massena in Nice 1758 –1817), one of the original 18 Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon I, called ‘the Dear Child of Victory’, often considered as one of the greatest generals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars;
Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753 –1815), Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram, French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars